Poland accused the Russian dispatchers in provoking the crash of Tu-154
WARSAW, 3 April — RIA Novosti. The General Prosecutor’s office of Poland has put forward accusations against the Russian managers and the “third person” intentionally provoking the crash of Tu-154 plane of former President Lech Kaczynski in Smolensk.
“Already collected and produced in the course of the investigation evidence that allowed prosecutors to formulate new charges against the air traffic controllers, as well as third persons who were in the control tower mission, intentionally provoking the disaster, which resulted in the death of a large number of people”, — said the Deputy Prosecutor-General Marek Piosenek at a press conference in Warsaw.
He noted that Poland will turn to Russia with a request for legal assistance for questioning of Russian air traffic controllers
The head of the prosecutorial team to investigate the causes of the disaster Marek Kuchinski added that the legal indictment of managers possible within the framework of cooperation with Russia in accordance with the Convention on legal assistance. “Now we wait for the response of the Russian authorities on the timing of our presentation,” he said.
In the Kremlin, in turn, said that “to agree with such conclusions is not possible.” Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov recalled that this case involved and the Russian investigating authorities, and the circumstances of the accident are already seriously investigated. “The work will continue,” he told reporters.
The Polish presidential plane crashed on 10 April 2010 when landing at the airport Smolensk-North. On Board were 96 people: eight crew members and 88 passengers, flying at the mourning events in Katyn, including Lech Kaczynski with his wife and a number of officials. they All died.
According to a report on the results of the technical investigation, published by the Interstate aviation Committee in 2011, the immediate cause of the crash is recognized as the crew’s decision not to leave on spare airdrome, and the system reasons — deficiencies in flight operations and crew training.