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Old 14th Jan 2011, 21:47
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Sorry to get between expets discussing, a mere amateur here (Polish expat).

Just wanted to point out that while the MAK report was published in English, the Polish list of remarks was not translated (it was a mistake by Polish gvmnt not to do it themselves - now all the international public opinion has is the MAK version...)
Those remarks have quite a few important questions regarding the ATC actions, namely that ATC was confirming that the a/c was on glidescope until the aircraft was below the runway threshold altitude

So for sure we have a crew that busted the minima on approach, but also it seems (this should be visible from the ATC records that Polish side is going to release) that they were reconfirmed by the ATC that they are on correct g/s all the way until when it was already too late to recover...
Surely it won't take the blame out of the crew completely, but nonetheless the MAK report is so blatantly ignoring any possible mistakes/issues on Russian side it's simply unbelievable. I find it hard to think that all the holes in the cheese were lining up on the Polish side of the border...
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