Poland remembers Smolensk air crash amid controversy

  10 April 2015    Read: 806
Poland remembers Smolensk air crash amid controversy
Poland is marking the fifth anniversary of the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed its president, Lech Kaczynski, and 95 others.
The investigation into the crash is still going on.

This week a Polish radio station, RMF FM, leaked a transcript of cockpit recordings suggesting that presidential aides had put pressure on the pilots to land at Smolensk despite thick fog.

Polish military prosecutors called the transcript "imprecise".

The plane wreckage remains in Russia.

The disaster happened as the president, his wife and top government officials were travelling to Katyn, the remote wooded spot where Soviet secret police murdered thousands of Polish officers in 1940.

The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crashed just short of the runway near Smolensk in western Russia, after it hit trees in heavy fog.

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