Kaczynski's presence on the plane may have contributed to fatal accident

The psychological pressure of taking on board the Polish President Lech Kaczynski could have caused the plane crash that crashed last April in the Russian city of Smolensk, where the president died and 95 other passengers, as indicated today Russian aviation authorities. "They will be angry," said one of the crew members to an extract from a recording of the flight issued by the Interstate Aviation Committee of Russia during a press conference on the investigation.

The comment was in Polish and translated into Russian for the audience. The investigation led by Russian technicians at the outset ruled out technical failure and pointed to human error. The decision to engage in adverse weather landing was the direct cause of the accident that killed most of political and military authorities of Poland, as indicated by the head of the Committee, Tatiana Anodina.

"On one hand, (the pilot) knew that the plane had not landed under these conditions, and on the other side was a strong pressure on board for the plane landed," he said during the presentation of the final conclusions about the accident. The presence of Kaczynski and other senior officials, including the head of the Polish air forces in the interior of the cabin would have influenced the pilot's decision not to abort the landing and look for other landing clear, adds Anodina.

"The feared negative reaction from the main passenger" to the recommendation not to land "psychological pressure placed on members of the crew and influenced the decision to continue with the landing," added the charge, clearly referring to Kaczynski. In the accident, which occurred before a thick fog near Smolensk airport, killing the president, his wife and other senior government and Parliament.

Poland received the conclusions of the investigation last November and has already stated that he considered unsatisfactory, which has fueled new tensions between Warsaw and Moscow.

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