The quoted interview with ATC made it to Polish TV.
Now running live on TVN24.
Commented by Col. Tomasz Pietrzak:
"Old procedure based on NDB..."
"Not used in Poland since years."
"They could respond, but must not respond."
"This is not true, they didn't speak Russian, they were fluent."
"This was a military airfield, no ICAO, Russian spoken."
"They might have been too busy with the lookout, therefore not responding..."
"They were to the airfield before, last time on Wednesday
on "reconnaissance" flight..."
"Every celebration they landed there..."
"They knew the vicinity, terrain well..."
"They didn't try to land, they made a test approach..."
"...there was no holding, there was just one approach..."
"They hit the forest from the threshold, 50m off the line..."
"On the threshold three spot lights in flight path direction..."
"It was a visibility test approach..."
"It was not a mistake by ATC not to close the airfield..."
"Lets not talk about mistakes."
Interview ended.
Last edited by Ptkay; 11th Apr 2010 at 20:45.