Crash not solely fault of pilots

21st January 2011

Tusk: “It is better to know the truth and not have a war than not know the truth and have a war.”

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The emotional and vitriolic row over what caused the Smolensk disaster took another twist during a highly charged debate in the Sejm this week. A motion to reject the government’s report on the incident was eventually defeated by 270 votes to 152 but only after some very heated exchanges between some of the country’s most prominent politicians.

The Polish report claims that mistakes by Russian air-traffic control contributed to the crash of President Kaczynski’s aircraft. In rebuffing the findings of a Russian report that pinned the blame for the crash firmly on the pilots, Polish investigators said that air-traffic control had failed to tell the Tupolev TU-154 that it had strayed o ...

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