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Polish President dead in plane crash
« on: 10 April 2010, 10:19:33 »
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #1 on: 10 April 2010, 10:42:48 »
Sad news, indeed. :'(

Tough for the Poles, especially as they have lost a large number of senior officials in the same incident.

Mind you, the Tu154 is really rubbish aircraft and there had been calls for the presidential fleet to be upgraded. Not saying that it would have avoided the tragedy but, as I say, the 154 is ancient.
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #2 on: 10 April 2010, 10:46:26 »
Apparently the Pilot was asked to divert to Moscow due to bad weather, also He made a few attempts at landing prior to the crash? :-/
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #3 on: 10 April 2010, 10:50:35 »
sad news  :(

was here also in the news today.. 20 year old airplane..nobody survived :(
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« Reply #4 on: 10 April 2010, 10:52:05 »
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Apparently the Pilot was asked to divert to Moscow due to bad weather, also He made a few attempts at landing prior to the crash? :-/

Yes, I just read the pilot was allegedly on his fourth attempt to land. :o
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #5 on: 10 April 2010, 10:56:13 »
I have read the full Polish media coverage (thanks to Google translate bar) and friends cannot believe so many military officials and political leaders were put on the same plane.

As said, the plane does not have the best record and conditions were poor, but this was in Russia and the US nuclear siting strategy was contentious.  Hmmm.

A turbulent time ahead for Poland.

Thoughts go out to the familes  :'(
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #6 on: 10 April 2010, 11:28:47 »
Yep, sad sad day for Poland

He seemed to be doing a good job by all accounts given the current worldwide economic situation....

Terrible loss for the country....

On the bright  side, Zloty should go down against the pound and there will be 3 days off work for the Polish people.

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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #7 on: 10 April 2010, 12:09:58 »
Very sad day.
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #8 on: 10 April 2010, 13:53:23 »
Heres a list of just some of the people on board, some important people died here!, what were they all doing on the same flight?  :-/

Lech Kaczy[ch324]ski, the President of Poland
Maria Kaczy[ch324]ska, the first lady
Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Polish government-in-exile
Jerzy Szmajdzi[ch324]ski, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
W[ch322]adys[ch322]aw Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
Aleksander Szczyg[ch322]o, head of the National Security Bureau
Pawe[ch322] Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
General Franciszek G[ch261]gor, Chief of the Polish Army General Staff
Andrzej Przewo[ch378]nik, Secretary-General of Rada Ochrony Pami[ch281]ci Walk i M[ch281]cze[ch324]stwa
Grzegorz Dolniak, member of the Sejm
Przemys[ch322]aw Gosiewski, member of the Sejm
Zbigniew Wassermann, member of the Sejm
Janusz Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman
S[ch322]awomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland
Janusz Kurtyka, Historian and president of the Institute of National Remembrance
Bishop Tadeusz P[ch322]oski, Polish Military Bishop (2004)
Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, member of the Sejm
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #9 on: 10 April 2010, 14:00:21 »
Basically everybody apart from Lech Walesa then.....
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #10 on: 10 April 2010, 17:04:45 »
Was it an accident or an 'accident' ? :-/ Either way, it just goes to show, life is a very tenuous gift. :(
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #11 on: 10 April 2010, 17:16:35 »
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #12 on: 10 April 2010, 17:19:51 »
The Mrs (she's Polish) reckons that there had been requests put in recently to replace the plane that crashed today.....

And as menttioned, why put so many VIPs in one aircraft.......???

I flew to bulgaria on one of the TU154s back in 1986, and our particular plane was knackered even back then.......

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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #13 on: 10 April 2010, 17:58:40 »
Somethings not right, four attempts to land the Aircraft into a modern Military Base?, even if it is an old plane it would have basic Glide scope capabilities and GPS on board, or worst case Radar Vectoring from the Air Base, no doubt we shall found out?

The Russians have recovered the Black Box already, it will be interesting to see if that stays in Russia or gets sent back to Poland for analysis!   
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Re: Polish President dead in plane crash
« Reply #14 on: 10 April 2010, 18:05:46 »
Plane crashing into hills in fog whilst attempting to land............? Happened before and will happen again......

Bit early to read something more sinister into it if you ask me........!

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