Polish and Russian Investigators Tackle Black Boxes

Polish and Russian investigators are examining the two black boxes from Pres. Kazcynski’s tragic plane crash.
Polish and Russian Investigators Tackle Black Boxes
4/21/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Russian rescuers (R) workers on April 11, 2010 inspect the wreckage of the Polish government Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of Pres. Kaczynski which crashed on April 10 near Smolensk airport. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images)
Polish military prosecutors are working with Russian investigators to examine the recordings from the two black boxes associated with the Polish plane crash tragedy, including the pilot’s conversations before the crash, Polish media has reported.

Russian experts are trying sift through the contents of the flight recorders, which contain flight parameters and voice recordings. They say that some time is necessary before the information, which the recordings contain, will be made public because they are over-noised.

Zbigniew Rzepa, a Polish military prosecutor, revealed that the voice recorder contains the last 30 minutes of the flight including pilots’ “dramatic” speech and screams before the plane approached the ground, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported.

However, Rzepa said it is proving difficult to temporarily match the mechanical flight data recordings with the audio recordings. {33115, 33125, 33203, 33236}

Due to the complexity of the analysis, Russian authorities have not set an expected time for completion of the investigation, Rzepa added.

The head of the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee, Tatyana Anodina, said on April 15 that the pilots had tried landing the plane only once instead of four times as had been earlier reported.

Polish media are circulating versions of the tragedy saying that Russian dispatchers are responsible as they should not have recommended Poland’s presidential plane land in Severny airport in Russia’s Smolensk city due to heavy fog.

Gazeta Wyborcza citing military sources, reported that 15 minutes before Kaczynski’s plane was to land at Severny military airport, a Russian Il-76 with national security officers on board had been forbidden to land at the same airport.