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Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]
Monia, you are the one who keeps saying the grass is blue, when it is clear for all to see that it isn't.
Face it:
Error 1: not enough pre-flight preparation
Error 2: a lack of training and questionable mores in this particular regiment
Error 3: putting all the country's executives and people of standing in ONE plane (you will be hard pressed to find the same level of stupidity in any other country, after they've learned the hard lesson - but it seems to be typical, that over here they have to re-invent the wheel all the time, when in fact it would be best to look at other country's mistakes and the lessons they've learned, cfr. building highways and building water defenses)
Error 4: going below the assigned 100m
Error 5: not listening to "PULL UP, PULL UP"
Error 6: choosing the wrong airport under the wrong circumstances
Other errors have been pointed out by other posters.
Mishap 1: they started off too late
Mishap 2: there were some people on board who really
had to be somewhere on time (on the road you can revert to switching on sirens and blue lights, which is a typical sight here as well), but in the air this tree was just waiting for them, no matter how much it wanted to get out of the way).
Mishap 3: the earlier "thing" with the pilot who didn't want to land in Georgia
Mishap 4: the weather.
Unfortunately, in aviation, the pilot is always the last one responsible and therefore to blame according to the law, when in fact the poor man was -I think- under a lot of (di)stress.
Let this be a lesson ... learn from it ... stop trying to pass the buck.
