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President not cargo package - can decide about landing
How is that for technical conversation about sterile cockpit rules not applying to VIPs precedent? This is about legal precedent in a NATO country.
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Unlike most Kaczynski supporters, you mastered English even.
SadPole, come on, stop the gutter level propaganda. As far as English goes - well at least make the effort to correctly translate the title of the article - the original title does not contain the word landing 'lądować'. Besides, it's an onet article, that's a site next to which the Daily Mail is professional journalism.
As has been pointed out - Kaczynski's brother refers to the fact that the VIP passenger has the right to decide what to do if they cannot land at Smolensk - divert to A, divert to B, return to Warsaw. This issue has been beaten to death on this and all the Polish aviation forums.
How is that for technical conversation about sterile cockpit rules not applying to VIPs precedent? This is about legal precedent in a NATO country.
J Kaczynski is a political party leader and an MP. Please read the Polish Constitution - it was sent to every household a few years ago. J Kaczynski does not create the law in Poland. Law in Poland is not governed by precedents. NATO is not governed by precedents in member countires. NATO does not govern government flights in member countries. NATO has nothing to do with it. Stop getting hysterical.
The whole pilot 'under pressure' argument is b*****it.
The pilot in the Tibilisi affair got a medal for his conduct during that flight.
The Smolensk pilot was working towards leaving the PAF and becoming a commercial pilot. (Given that the opposition is in government and that LOT is state controlled one could even argue that pissing off Kaczynski on that day would have been a good career move).
The Russians had turned back the IL - the TU pilot could have aborted the landing without loosing face.
The YAK crew had ostentatiously reported the lack of visiblity (although they backed down a bit later) - the TU pilot could have aborted the landing without loosing face.
The fact is they were (most probably) trying to fly over the airport at MDA and botched it up. PPL exercise 17a - "The Precautionary search and landing" - guess you could say they messed that one up. I would expect a pilot in an 'elite' PAF unit to be able to do that. But you know what they say - it doesn't matter how many flights you've flown - it's how you flew the last flight that counts.
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