Polish pilot errors main cause of 2010 crash

July 29, 2011 17:55

A year after the tragic plane crash that in Poland that killed then head of state Lech Kaczynski, a report says the pilots of the presidential jet made a series of errors and were poorly prepared.

The government report admitted most of the blame for the disaster, in which all 96 people on board were killed, lay with Poland, but it also listed a number of shortcomings by Russia, where the plane went down in April last year.

In an indictment of the Polish armed forces, it said the badly trained crew approached too low and too fast in poor weather as they prepared to land at the western Russian town of Smolensk.

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