Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
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Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#2Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#3The official explanation of catastrophe was hitting the birch during landing attempt... while the airplane was at about 30 meters of altitude (yes, it was a birch not sequoia).
Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#4Sabotage seems incredibly unlikely as the pilot made repeated passes in heavy fog - attempting to land.
Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#5How does one go from speculations about explosions on the aircraft to claims of assassination? How about applying an Occam's razor every once in a while?
Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#6Sabotage seems incredibly unlikely as the pilot made repeated passes in heavy fog - attempting to land.
Wasn't this rumor debunked quite early in the investigation?
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#7There was only one landing attempt.
Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#8There would be traces of explosives.
"But the tree impact that supposedly precipitated the crash wouldn't have caused enough wing damage to down the plane, said Binienda ... It's absolutely impossible that the wing sheared and then it crashed the way [government investigators] described" - that's all they have, an opinion of a conspiracy nut. I don't buy this for a second, and here's why:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19550616-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_Air_Disaster
EDIT:
Oh, and the explosion would be heard by both people on the ground (some random guy was right next to the crash scene, he even put a video on youtube), and on the black box recording (transcript available).
Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#9Aircraft pilots, even highly trained ones, overreact in non standard situations. The simulation argues that the plane could not have been significantly damaged by the tree. The simulation doesn't say anything about pilot's reaction to the collision event. An attempt by the pilot to compensate for impact is more likely to have caused damaged than the impact itself.
Re: Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
#10The official explanation of catastrophe was hitting the birch during landing attempt... while the airplane was at about 30 meters of altitude (yes, it was a birch not sequoia).
At that speed, it could easily cut through the rather delicate construct that is an airliner's wing, especially close to tip as it did.