Smolensk investigative committee accuses Russia of manipulating data in Tu-154 crash
The Polish Smolensk Crash Commission, which has been investigating the causes of the Tu-154M aircraft crash in Smolensk that killed former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, presented the results of its work that indicate that data about the crash was manipulated by Russia and previous Commissions, Polish Radio reported. The Minister of National Defense of Poland, Antoni Macierewicz, stated that Russians found the black box of the presidential aircraft a few minutes after the crash, listened to the records and then put the box back into the debris.
The members of the Commission stated that debris from the presidential plane was lying 60 meters away from the birch tree that, according to Russian accounts, the aircraft hit.
The debris of the left wing should have been in different locations, some of them were found at a distance of 30 meters from where the aircraft was struck. According to the members of the Commission, it would mean that location of the aircraft in the last phase of the flight differed from the location specified in the reports of Russian and other Polish Commissions.
Commission member Marek Dombrowski stated that the Commission headed by the then Minister of Interior and Administration, Jerzy Miller carried out manipulations of received data from flight recorders.
“Miller’s Commission carried out manipulations of the readings from the flight recorders and reduced them. The last 3 seconds were cut out and recordings from a Russian flight recorder were added instead, despite the fact that Poland knew of numerous inaccuracies in the recordings of the Russian flight recorder. “Also, 5 seconds were cut out from the recordings of the other Russian flight recorder,” Dombrowski said.
The body of the Commander of the Polish Air Force, General Andrzej Błasik should have been near the bodies of other passengers but not in the cockpit and the bodies of crew members were strewn at three different locations. The Commission has established that burn marks, which can’t be explained by fire that occurred at the crash site, were found on the bodies of some victims.
The Ministry of National Defense of Poland has released a video containing a conversation of the then Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin after the Smolensk disaster.