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wildrover   
19 Apr 2010
Life / Experience with local charities in Poland? [7]

Have any of you done volunteer work?

Its what brought me to Poland in the first place...on route to Belarus to help kids sick from the Chernobyl accident...

Later i wound up coming to Poland twice a year to bring truckloads of stuff to a kids home near Lobez....

I also got involved in a homeless organisation in the same town....
wildrover   
18 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

He likely lost his head when he first clipped the trees.

When he clipped the trees the plane was decending , and even if he saw them coming it was too late to do anything about it....i imagine he tried applying power and tried to take evasive action , but this is a heavy aircraft , it does not respond like a fighter , it was most likely doomed from the moment it hit the first ground object...Once they lost a portion of wing it was going to crash , and probably they could do nothing to prevent it....
wildrover   
18 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

And an excellent writeup can be found

Jeez...these are not really tall trees he hit....he was flying pretty dam low to hit them....

The radio mast looks a lot taller , some reports say they hit that first , lost a lump of wing , then hit the trees as the aircraft began to roll over....

I am starting to believe this pilot may well have deliberatly flown well below the safe height in order to try to catch sight of the runway...an incredibly dangerous thing to do...

Sadly , when they did see the ground , it was too late to avoid hitting it...
wildrover   
17 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Cheap buses to Poland from UK [13]

Maybe there is a Polish forum in the UK that you could ask on...Maybe there are Poles heading home by car that would welcome some company and maybe somebody to share fuel costs...its worth a try...!
wildrover   
16 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Olga is a real star....first she argues that the aircraft was dumping fuel , and even tried to tell pilots who fly the dam aircraft that they were wrong in saying it can,t dump fuel..now she is trying to tell Russians they don,t know their own language....

get her some medicine somebody....
wildrover   
15 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

They sound distinctly like gun shots,

If there were security people on the plane...and they carried guns they would also have ammo for them....the sound of shots could be the ammo cooking off in the fire , or tyres exploding , oxygen bottles....any number of things...possibly even Russian soldiers warning people off the crash site....nothing sinister i suspect....
wildrover   
15 Apr 2010
News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]

1) Eyewitness accounts testify to dumping of fuel.

Given the weather conditions at the time its possible what the witnesses saw was vapour trails coming off the wings...looks a whole lot like fuel dumping...which if you have been paying attention on this thread you will know its not possible for this aircraft to do....
wildrover   
15 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Despite the fact i have a Russian girlfriend , and have some affection for the Russian people , especially one , i am more than willing to believe the Russkies had a hand in this disaster if there is one shred of evidence to suggest it , but there just isn,t....

Long standing distrust of the Russians is not evidence...!
wildrover   
15 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

I just can't see any nozzles here. Maybe my eyes are bad... Does anyone else see them?

There are none that i can see....The big mystery for me is....if these flap track coverings are actually fuel dump nozzles...how the hell do they operate the flaps....mind over matter perhaps...???
wildrover   
15 Apr 2010
News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

I think it would just be easier to accept what Olga is saying , because its pretty obvious she will not accept anything other than total Russian blame for this crash , and no amount of facts will convince her it was an accident...

She has even argued the facts with a guy who flies the dam aircraft type....

Nothing is going to change her mind...lets just agree with what she says or we will never hear the last of it...