2010 Polish presidential aircraft crash

Katyn-2 is name of the crash that is believed to be mass murder, analogy of the mass murder of polish soldiers by soviet veterans in Katyn in the beginning of the World War 2. . Up to summer of year 2010, the cause of the crash of the airplane Tu-154M with polish representatives (including polish president Lech Kaczynski) broken in 2010 April 10 in Smolensk it is not revealed, although various versions were suggested.

The moment of the crash is not known, as if the dispatcher in the Control Tower did not watch the flight at the screen of his radar and did not fix the moment the mark disappeared. First, the Smolensk regional governor Sergei Antufiev reported the crash to happen at 2010 April 10 at 8:56am of the local time . This information was reproduced in many mass media (and later used as base the funeral ceremony). However next day (April 11), another estimate of the time of the crash was suggested, the presecutor officer of the Investigation committee told that this happened at 10:50 a.m. (2:50 a.m. ET). . After a month, the official version of the moment of crash had been changed to 8:41am. Accordingly, the three additional attempts to land , that the airplane was reported to make (that presumably, could take place between 8:41am and 9:56am) later were not confirmed but denied

The altitude of the destruction of the airplane also disputed. The dispatcher had confirmed that the airplane follows the glissade . This indicates that the destruction of the airplane could happen at the altitude of a hundred meters. This would explain also the death of all the passengers and the crew members and the disruption of the body of the airplane for many parts. On the other hand, the Russian official investigation group claims that the airplane disrupted at the altitude of few meters, choking the trees.

The international investigation of the case is requested . The reports about plundering of the passengers belongings indicate that one of the goals of the terrorists caused the crash could be just robbery. The wrong counting of the number of the landing attempts , the 15 minute errors in counting time (required for the "additional" three abortive attempts to land), as well as the hiding of the records of the of the ground monitoring of the flight and other peculiarities in the official version initiated doubts in the honesty of the official Russian investigation group. Some of relevant cites are listed by the Polish site Smolensk-2010.