Pilot error may be to blame for a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday, that killed the Polish president and 95 others. The passengers on the plane consisted of the Polish President Lach Kaczynski, and his wife, along with dozens of high-ranking government and defence officials. The TU-154 plane crashed while in heavy fog near Smolensk, Russia. The investigator who was assigned this case, is Russia's chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin. Bastrykin said on Monday, that the investigators have almost finished reading the flight recorders. "The readings confirm that there were no problems with the plane, and that the pilot was informed about the difficult weather conditions , but never the less decided to land" Bastrykin said during a briefing with the Russian Prime Minister. The pilot was identified as Capt. Arkadiuz Protasiuk, 36, and the co-pilot as Maj. Robert Grzywna, 36. The Polish delegation was traveling to Russia to attend a memorial for more than 20,000 Polish soldiers, police, and others executed by the soviet secret police and buried in graves in the Katyn forest near Smolensk in 1940.This is truly a tragic event. These people died because of one mistake. I believe that the pilot is responsible as he should have not taken the risk in trying to fly in heavy fog. Since there were such high profile passengers on board all precautions should have been taken into consideration. The plane was in perfect shape, so a faulty plane could not have been responsible for the crash. This leads us to believe that the pilot flying was responsible and simply made a bad judgement call. He must have believed he could fly and not realized the severity of the fog. Pure and simple pilot error is the result in this tragic event.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/12/poland-plane-crash-warsaw.html
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