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Old 20th May 2010, 13:00
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Alice025
 
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I will translate MAC fact sheet, may be not all at once.

Of established facts and circumstances of the catastrophe of TU-154

Material given is factual information, received in the course of investigation, conducted by the technical MAK committee together with the Appointed Representative of the Republic of Poland and a large group of Polish experts, who used various sources incl. ground and on-board means of objective control, as well as flight and technical documentation.
Should new documentation data follow and be analysed, the material below will be made more full.
The material below and its separate parts are not the analysis of the reasons of the aviation incident, is not aimed at establishing a share of someone's guilt or area of responsibilty, and therefore should not be interpreted as such.
For the convenience of perception the established facts are grouped into groups. All time marks are given in tying with the local Smolensk time which is congruent with Moscow time. Time of Warsaw is 2 hrs in delay.

Group 1: General level of flying work organisation and preparation of the members of the crews of TU-154M in the 36th Regimennt of Air Force of the Republic of Poland.

a. In the division is absent a detailed programme of preparation of the flying staff. Regular periodic trainins in the simulator for the rehearsing the skills of mutual interaction and technology of the crew work, including special occasions during a flight, are not conducted;

(note - from me. the Polish commander said there aren't simply simulators with them for flying TU-154 or TU154M. if they had in the first place - they would train.)

b. In the division is absent an Instruction on mutual interaction and technology of work of the crew members in the 4-member crew set. Flights are conducted by using directly the RLE ? of the airplane, developed for the minimum crew q-ty, that is 3 people (without a navigator).

Group 2 Forming of the crew and their preparation to the flight on 10 April 2010.

a. The crew was formed several days prior to the flight in the set of the KVS (Kommander of the Air Vessel), second pilot, "shturman" (navigator) and board-engineer. Total flight time and self-conducted flight time on TU154M in this particular capacity
for the KVS: total - 3,480 hrs approx., in TU154M - 530 hrs approx.
Second pilot: total - 1,900 hrs, in TU154M - 160 hrs
Shturman (navigator): total -1,070 hrs, in TU154M - 30 hrs
Board-engineer: total 290 hrs, in TU154M - 235 hrs.

b. In the process of the pre-flight preparation the crew received under their signature meteo-data which included: factual weather and forecast for the airport of departure, factual data and forecast for the spare aerodromes. factual weather and forecast for the flight route.
Factual weather and forecast for the aerodrome of destination Smolensk-Northern the crew had not (note from me - HAD NOT).

c. Actual/meaningful aero-navigation data on the aerodrome of destination Smolesnk-Northern, including acting NOTAM ?, the crew had not (note from me HAD NOT).

(???? what did it have.)
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