Originally Posted by
SadPole
Have you even read the official "Polish Remarks to the MAK report"? According to it, ALL causes of crash shown by MAK report are wrong or unsupported by any evidence or insufficiently proven
I am getting sick of straightening out your misinformation. Until now, your English was perfect, what happened now to your language skills when you wrote the above, when the 'Remarks' doc at page 148 says:
In the opinion of Polish comission,
some of the conclusions contained in the section 3.2 "Causes", cannot be confirmed by facts, are not sufficiently proven by the analysis, or the analysis is not performed properly
Then they specifically list all these causes, including:
- mistakes in training and preparation of crew
- mistakes in preparation of alternate airports
- landing approach on autopilot in configuration specifically not allowed by flight manual
- not abandoning approach upon reaching decision height of 100[m]
If you care to read more in the document, not just the last page of it, you'll see that most of the remarks to the above are not denying the finding, but are calling for clarification on how the conclusions were obtained, or are pointing out some details that were not taken into account by MAK - not denying the conclusions themselves.
The commission is maneuvering itself into a hole. As gstaniak pointed out their little presentation made most politicians believe that ATCs were indeed the main culprits. Even Tusk believes we should go to ICAO to prove that Russian ATCs were at fault.
How are they going to walk away from it now?
So far they don't have anything to walk away from as the report is still far from being published - so you can sleep in peace.