As April is nearing, the topic of Smoleńsk air disaster in 2010 reactivates in Poland 🇵🇱
A year after the crash it was 100% clear that the plane shouldn't even have left Warsaw by law, and certainly shouldn't have attempted landing in dense fog.
It was entirely avoidable, caused by a sequence of risky misjudgements and classified as "controlled flight into terrain".
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Now, on more personal angle, the crash has been highly divisive in Poland.
Large part of society simply refused to believe, against all available evidence, that the Polish pilots could have simply flown into terrain while TAWS was screaming TERRAIN AHEAD.
The main problem is that before Smoleńsk there were already *three* military aircraft crashes, very similar to Smoleńsk - risky decisions, in violation of any safety rules, poor weather.
