Thank you sir!
I have the highest respect for the victims and victim families. This is a tragedy that will remain for a while and I just hope that it does not divide Russians and Poles further.
As of the airplane itself. I'm tired of hearing on TV and Radio from so called experts that the plane was Russian and it was poorly made. I'm not Russian at all, but let's be real about this. At the time the Tupolevs were made I think the were designed and built pretty well. In-fact I think Tupolevs might be like AK-47's. Rugged and Built tough. Most of the crashes of Tupolevs could be attributed to the fact that most of those planes were flown by third world countries with very little to none requirements for safety in terms of routine maintenance and most likely skipped them.
Should we blame McDonnell Douglas for crashes because Air Alaska did not maintain good fleet or because some poor bastard at the airline decided to cut corners because of pressure to get the planes up and ready ASAP.
Let me remind everyone that everyone is almost certain 99.9% that the plane did not malfunction at all. It seems to be a combination of poor weather and bad crew judgment.
I found an interesting article with Col. Tomasz Pietrzak. As it turns out he did not fly on the August 2008 trip to Tsbilisi so Olii was wrong. The article is in Polish, but I'll translate some of it. It was an interview that he gave when he retired due to poor fleet of polish VIP's planes and not just TU-154
Here is some more info on TU-154 that the President flew.
Tu-154M side number 101 has been specially produced for the Poland on 29 June 1990, delivered to the Poland on July 12 that same year. Aircraft for the entire period of his service was operated by the 36th Special Aviation Regiment operating from the military part of the Okecie Airport. Tu-154M in 2009, underwent a full restructuring coupled with the limited modernization, was equipped with modern navigation systems to allow for landing without visual runway visibility as the ILS (Instrument Landing System).
This is TU-154 landing in Prague, 2 days prior to the accident.
I have the highest respect for the victims and victim families. This is a tragedy that will remain for a while and I just hope that it does not divide Russians and Poles further.
As of the airplane itself. I'm tired of hearing on TV and Radio from so called experts that the plane was Russian and it was poorly made. I'm not Russian at all, but let's be real about this. At the time the Tupolevs were made I think the were designed and built pretty well. In-fact I think Tupolevs might be like AK-47's. Rugged and Built tough. Most of the crashes of Tupolevs could be attributed to the fact that most of those planes were flown by third world countries with very little to none requirements for safety in terms of routine maintenance and most likely skipped them.
Should we blame McDonnell Douglas for crashes because Air Alaska did not maintain good fleet or because some poor bastard at the airline decided to cut corners because of pressure to get the planes up and ready ASAP.
Let me remind everyone that everyone is almost certain 99.9% that the plane did not malfunction at all. It seems to be a combination of poor weather and bad crew judgment.
I found an interesting article with Col. Tomasz Pietrzak. As it turns out he did not fly on the August 2008 trip to Tsbilisi so Olii was wrong. The article is in Polish, but I'll translate some of it. It was an interview that he gave when he retired due to poor fleet of polish VIP's planes and not just TU-154
Here is some more info on TU-154 that the President flew.
Tu-154M side number 101 has been specially produced for the Poland on 29 June 1990, delivered to the Poland on July 12 that same year. Aircraft for the entire period of his service was operated by the 36th Special Aviation Regiment operating from the military part of the Okecie Airport. Tu-154M in 2009, underwent a full restructuring coupled with the limited modernization, was equipped with modern navigation systems to allow for landing without visual runway visibility as the ILS (Instrument Landing System).
This is TU-154 landing in Prague, 2 days prior to the accident.
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