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Russian managers who have worked at the airport on the day of Smolensk plane crash of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, acted in strict accordance with the instructions and with international standards, said the Investigation Committee in response to the allegations of the Polish side of the guilt of controllers.
«In the TFR, the investigation of the criminal case instituted on the fact of the accident. According to the results available to date, no violations in the actions of the group leadership Mission has not been revealed, “- told Interfax the official representative of the Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin.
Markin added that controllers warned the crew of the absence of conditions for safe landing, but “all of these warnings have been completely ignored by the crew, which in accordance with international standards of civil aviation is fully responsible for the execution of the flight and for the decision to aircraft landing».
«I want to remind that the Technical Commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee in the course of his investigation found no violations in the actions of managers “, – concluded the representative of the UK.
Earlier, the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Poland made accusations against the two controllers Smolensk airport of involvement in the plane crash of Tu 154, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and another 95 people. Prosecutor Ireneusz Shelong said that air traffic controllers charged with “involuntary bringing to the crash.” Shelong noted that “in the event of bad weather, the Russian side was obliged to pass the Tu-154 to another airport».
In this case, the prosecutor explained that the main cause of the disaster became crew actions. Pilots have gone on the reduction of aircraft below the minimum height for a touchdown, and did not give a command to a missed approach. Shelong noted that in the absence of visibility of the crew did not have the right to decline to a height of less than 120 m. In addition, the crew did not have permission to fly on April 10.
The plane crash near Smolensk that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and a number of prominent Polish politicians and high-ranking military, occurred on 10 April 2010. They were sent to the ceremonies in connection with the 70th anniversary of the massacre of Polish officers in Katyn.
The investigation of the causes of the crash was engaged in International Aviation Committee (IAC). In January 2011, he published a report on the investigation into the crash, in which the main culprits of the incident called the pilots who refused to leave the alternate. The experts IAC concluded that the pilots were operating under pressure that they exerted on board Polish officials, in particular the Air Force Commander of Poland Andrzej Błasik.
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