Well, it's not as bad as I was afraid it would be. Now they actually announced that PIC was formally stripped of command by (allegedly drunk) Blasik:
But Mr. Andrzej Seremet, the Attorney General confirmed the news about the blood alcohol of Gen. Błasik. It is so important because General Błasik was not an ordinary passenger, but the actual commander of the Tu-154. He took over the command and documented that fact by reporting to President Kaczynski the crew as ready for the job/departure at the airport in Warsaw. In this unprecedented way he stripped the powers away from the commander of the machine and at the decisive phase of the flight he sat in the cockpit. Gen. Błasik probably wanted to be, in the eyes of the president Lech Kaczynski, the one who will take him to Katyn regardless of bad weather.
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So, they are no longer trying to throw the crew and ATC under the bus. Thank GOD!!!! It could poison the relations between Poles and Russians forever.
Too bad we don't have a recording of what was being said between Kaczynski and his protégé Blasik. And with this official revelation and announcement, anything Kaczynski says is now just noise by a lunatic.
Blasik and Kaczynski connection is critical because the experts have blamed previous screw-ups on Blasik's incompetence but by intervention of Kaczynski he kept his position of the Air Force Chief. One way or another – the blame falls 100% on Kaczynski.
Therefore, no matter what other screwups with the buttons and such they made, problem was the drunk political puppet took over command and would not order goaround in time in spite of, what is also now being revealed, the crew querying him by saying they could not see ANYTHING. By the time Protasiuk dared to reclaim the command was way too late.
CASE CLOSED!!!!