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The objects on the figures are not gas nozzles. There is also no specification that requires Tu-154 to have them. There is an official permission for Tu-154 to land with excess weight up to MTOW in emergency case such as engine fire, hence there is no reason to have it.

Some witnesses may THINK they have seen the fuel dumping, but really they didn't. Clearly, most witnesses are not aviation engineers.

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Easy.
h t t p://w w w.avsim.su/forum/topic/39032-faq-po-pt-tu-154-dlya-nachinaushih/page__ st__700
Message #718 from Tender Cat.
Reads (translated): there is no emergency dumping of fuel on Tu-154 of all modifications. The captain makes a decision to continues the journey to destination or to circulate above the airport of origin until the fuel is burnt to reach maximum landing weight. In emergency cases the captain is allowed to land with excessive landing weight.

That "half-baked website" cited before contains a Tu-154 fuel system description. In a professional language, though.

Regarding the photos - I simply do not trust explanations of the incompetent people. You must very precisely point where a fuel discharge pipeline exit at the rear of the wings is located, and do not just speculate thinking that people are so blind to believe you, knowing that the experts say otherwise.

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That's just stupid. I (and everyone around) know exactly the opposite to what you are saying. Most people have access to the Internet, and anything that goes into Internet can never be hidden with no traces.

If this crash had been filmed, it would have been on YouTube already a few days ago, regardless of what Putin or state mass-media would think about it.

You are trying to convince innocent listeners to believe incredible pieces of crap. Russians are aware of the IT and Internet capabilities no worse than people in America and in Poland, and know well where they need to go to broadcast something they think needs to be shown. Like a mobile phone video after the blast at "Park Kultury" which appeared on YouTube a day after the blast.

There is just nothing to show. This was not the crash video. Not the same plane, not the same day.

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Sorry, Olga, you are really not competent in aviation.

You can ask Yandex the request "emergency fuel dump", and you'll get tens of links to the aviation discussions which confirm the fact the Tu-134 and Tu-154 are not equipped with on-air fuel dump system.

I have provided the list of Soviet-type airplanes that do have it in the previous comment.

The range of Tu-154 is similar to that that of Boeing-737, it is a medium range aircraft.
Tu-154: 5,280 kilometres (3,280 mi)
Boeing-737-300 to 500: 2,270–2,400 nmi (4,200–4,400 km; 2,610–2,800 mi)
Boeing-737-600: 3,050 nmi (5,650 km)

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Olga,
if you mean that few seconds mobile phone recording, it is very simply NOT the shots of Kaczynsky's Tu-154 on that day before crash. ;)

Would it be, we would have seen that video everywhere. But the guys didn't film the crash, they had to explain what had happened.

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Boeing 737 & 757 do not have fuel dumping ability. Tupolev-154 absolutely has fuel dumping capability.

Sorry, but this is false.

Look at this:
w w w.aviatehnic.ru/index.php?link=aviatehnicrutoplivnayasistema

and you see that the airplane only has systems that allow to dump fuel into the ground vessels, but not in the air. Such systems are not the same.

The fuel dumping systems are installed on: Il-62, Il-86, Il-96, Tu-204, Tu-214, Yak-40.
Not installed on Tu-134 and Tu-154.

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Dear Olga,
you shouldn't be so arrogant. The argument on video conditions is really very easy to drop. You should just think of the fact that the video must have been taken after the fog is gone.

Is it possible? Ultimately, yes.

Let's go to the weather archive site. Here it is,
rp5.ru/archive.php?wmo_id=26781&lang=ru

Select 10th of April, 1 day. Look at 10 am.

10 0.9 746.7 769.1 100 ЮВ 3 неопр. туман/ледяной туман, небо не видно Туман или ледяной туман. Мгла. (видимость < 1 км) <=5 баллов, ясно 0.5 0.5 0.9

Translated:
At 10 am. T = 0.9 C. Weather conditions: ice fog, sky can't be seen. Low level clouds: fog or ice fog, visibility < 1 km.

On the same day, 7 pm. T = 11.8 C, no clouds. This is exactly what we see on the video. It was filmed in the evening. :)

There is no surprise. What was in Smolensk that morning, was a classical weather inversion. The cooler air at the ground level led to development of an intensive fog, and it prevented the sun to warm it up until the end of the day. This is when the pilots tried to land. When the air became warm enough, the fog simply dissolved in the same way as the morning fogs normally do in summer.

You can also look at the first news reports from there, and you'll see this fog.

There is little perspective to develop conspiracy theories with such weak arguments in hands.