Smolensk Airport -The Polish Presidents Last Kilometer
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Warsaw, Poland 17 April, 2010 As more information is made public, the plane's final flight path has been determined.
For a pictures and analysis is at Smolensk Final Approach
The information below is not accurate. The pictures and the lastest analysis is at the link above.
Smolensk Crash Site
Warsaw, Poland 16 April , 2010 - Russian pictures of the Polish Presidents last kilometer from Poland to the Smolensk Airport show the sequence of collisions with trees as the plane descended to its final resting place.
There is a large picture of the Smolensk Russia crash site below that you can see by clicking on the image. For your convenience it will open in a new window.
These pictures were made by Russian photographers so the annotations are in Russian.
Picture 2 shows where the plane cut off a landing light on the first landing attempt. The red line shows the planes path for that attempt. Men inside the building said that they are lucky to be alive as the plane passed only a couple meters over their heads.
The plane, albeit it low, at that time was on the correct flight path to make a landing.
The yellow line shows the final attempt to land. The plane was both low and to the left of the runway.
In picture 1 you see the first tree hit by the plane. The plane cut the top of the tree off.
Picture 6 shows the large tree that probably tore the left wing from the plane and changed its path to the ground.
Also see Crash Site In Smolensk
And there is more information in Polish at Aviation And Defense In Poland
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