On the other hand, Ptkay, I'm thinking - the IL, that went away shortly before TU.
One would think that Russian IL had no problems with navigator flight time and crew team-work trained, like TU, it was a big and heavy plane - and still it couldn't ground! Tried twice, from 100 meters went away twice - means they haven't seen the ground. or were feeling disoriented or that something goes wrong.
It were to pick up away security and FSB, for a second, to take them out of Smolensk after the end of the events (they say they were brought in before the 7th, the Tusk visit, and stayed on to the 10th, Kachin'sky visit) - one would think that ministry sent after its people a very quality plane and crew, with no problems or lack, in anything.
It may be that for large plane that was sent to export out the FSB security men the Northern aerodrome was exactly same little familiar as for the Polish. When on earth do you need security people in large quantities in the small quiet Smolensk - where nothing never happens - but once a year the Polish arriving for Katyn memorial days.
That aerodrome is not the most popular place in the world to say the minimum. Who ever but military planes frequented it - and only they would be familiar with the tricky terrain and technical and whatever - details.
You can't help noticing that a small maneuvrable Yak - landed, while of the two big heavy - one gave up the other - may be also gave up, by the way, also wanted to go off away from 100 metres - but somehow mis-managed the approach - or their automated piloting system did - something clearly happened why haven't they went off away from 100 metres.