Aviation, offered new details about the plane crash which killed Polish president and dozens of other senior officials last month, including the revelation that two or more passengers in the cockpit shortly before the pilots tried to land the plane in dense fog.
In a press conference held by officials from Russia and Poland on Wednesday, "said Edmund Klich, an envoy from the Polish government that the cockpit voice recorder showed that the unidentified passenger were talking in the cockpit 16 to 20 minutes before 10 April plane crash. The pilots had received at least one warning for poor landing conditions at this point.
The news-driven wide speculation that the pilots were forced to land, so that President Lech Kaczynski and other officials would not be too late for his landmark appearance at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, in which the Red Army killed more than 20,000 Polish officers and others during the Second World War.
The aviation officials ruled out the possibility of technical failures, sabotage or terrorism, but offered no definitive conclusion as to what could have caused the retrofitted Tupolev TU-154 to slam into the trees just shy of a western Russian airport.
They said investigators were examining whether cellphone use on board aircraft or crew inexperience was a factor and that the presence of passengers on the flight deck, was also studied.
The study shows that there were no acts of terrorism, explosions, fire on board, or other problems with the aircraft equipment. The engines had been working before the aircraft approached the ground.
The head of the technical commission investigating the accident, Alexei Morozov, said that Severniy airdrome in Russia's Smolensk city where the plane was trying to put down, allowed planes land.
Before Kaczynski's Tu-154 aircraft would land on Severniy, a Yak-40 aircraft had already made a successful landing at the airport.
The crew of the Yak-40 flight crew informed the President about the weather. The navigation systems, including terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS) and driver management systems (FMS) was also with, "says Morozov.
Russian investigators have reported that 30 minutes before the accident, had the crew of the plane carrying the Polish president was informed several times about the fog and visibility.
The Polish delegation was headed to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the mass executions of Polish elites during the Second World War in Katyn Forest, 12 miles from the plane crash site.
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