Today is 5th anniversary of Polish Air Force Tu-154M crash in Smolensk, that killed 96 people, including president Lech Kaczynski and many important people in the country( millitary officials, members of parliament etc.) The general purpose of the flight was taking all those people to ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre-mass murder of Polish intellectual elite by Soviets. Thought, it was also part of the presidential election campaign. Kaczynski just wanted to show how patriotic he is, and invited people from left-wing and right-wing parties. Thing is that tree days before former PM Donald Tusk was at ceremonies there already but president needed his very won trip.
Everything is known about the crash: pilots attempted to land at crappy airport in thick fog. Also they were under big pressure, because President just
had to be there , and they had Air Force commander in the cabin during last few minutes, who was there to encourage pilots to land (guess who sent him). Thing is that pilots had another option - land in Minsk or Moscow, but of course that would have take too long, and they would be all late to ceremonies, and that would make Kaczynski look bad ( he was hated already by majority of society). Also organization of this flight was just abysmal: captain had only 400+ hours flown on Tu-154M as captain, he was the only one who spoke Russian, president was late 30-40 minutes for a flight ( as always many people said).
But of course all this doesn't convince right-wing Law and Justice party, ( Kaczynski was member of it, before he became president) because there's no way they would put some blame on their beloved president, so they created conspiracy theory. They think that it was a terrorist attack (bomb) commanded by Putin and Tusk and his party Civic Platform ( few people from this party also were killed in the crash). And while blaming Putin doesn't bother me, they are actually more concentrated on polish "assassins", and I don't like Tusk either but c'mon... Another delusional theory from them is that everything was faked: cvr recording ( it's on youtube), flight data recorder, fact that AF commander was in the cabin... We really have cabaret in the country thanks to those guys, like a one long sketch by Monty Python. They even made "experiments" with coca-cola cans and sausages to "prove" that bomb exploded on the plane
