The fingerpointing continues, and accusations keep flying, about who is to blame for the plane crash in Russian that killed Poland’s president and a host of Polish dignitaries last year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704678004576090030341320652.html
During a news conference Tuesday Polish officials said that errors by Russian air traffic controllers helped lead to the April plane crash where President Lech Kaczynski and another 95 people lost their lives.
The Poles claimed that the Russian controllers at the Smolensk airport, where the Polish offiicials were headed, did not react when they saw that Kaczynski’s plane was off course and that they permitted it to land “even though visibility at the airport was below the minimum safety threshold,” The Journal reported.
The Poles also charged that Russian meteorologists provided the Polish plane crew with faulty weather reports.
The Polish will issue a full report on their findings on the crash next month, but wanted to lob at shot at the Russians for their conclusions about the cause of the crash. In a report released last week, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee put the onus for the crash on the Polish pilots. The Russians claimed that the pilots were pressured to land by the dignataries they were transporting.