I don't believe the Polish plane hit trees and fell apart.

"There’s no telling if the two events are connected, but their timing is mighty interesting.

The Polish government and the National Bank of Poland, in a “rare moment of unity,” agree to weaken Poland’s currency, the zloty, in an act that would benefit Poland’s exporters at the expense of Poland’s trading partners—that is, the European Union, among others. Then, the next day, Poland’s president and the president of its national bank die in a plane crash."

Pilot error has been blamed for the tragedy after it emerged he turned down the opportunity to land at an alternative runway in thick fog. Witnesses said the pilot made three or four attempts to land before crashing into woodland nearby.

“The head of the air traffic control group gave a command to the crew to put the aircraft into the horizontal position and when the crew did not implement this order, several times gave orders to divert to an alternative airport.

“Despite this, the crew continued the descent. Unfortunately this ended in tragedy.”

Russia Today and other television stations reported that even before the first attempt to land, the pilot had been dumping fuel — indicating some form of mechanical problem — so by the fourth attempt there was no alternative but to put the aircraft down"

Two “black boxes” — the plane’s cockpit flight recorders — were recovered from the wreckage. According to Russian investigators, a preliminary check confirmed that the pilot had defied the control tower. The recorders may hold the answer as to why.

FSoares wrote:The first thing that is puzzling in this story is that generally high officials from a Nation when they travel somewhere, they do not go all on the same plane.

It's also strange to believe the pilot didn't follow the instructions to land in an alternative runaway, because 4 attempts is considered too much by aviation experts. In the middle of this all, the Poles were using a Tupolev as the PR plane. Those planes are not very famous in terms of security and the technical support had to be performed in Russia.

The worse of it all is that Vladimir Putin is going to be the Head for this investigation. Scary!

Lioned wrote:Aeroplanes aren't that strong Anna.Hit a tree and bits will fall off.Not going for a conspiracy on this one yet,but i'll keep an open mind just in case.
Talking 'human error' at the moment but thats usually old language for a f'ck up in eastern european terms.