>We took away their plaque on the crash site, Poles burned Putin dummy? mummy? by Russian embassy in Warsaw.
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>Poles in Warsaw demanded "a Nurenberg" for Putin.
Alice, please. It's not "Poles in Warsaw", it's "a few thousand mebers and supporters of a populist party whose leader wants to make a career on bashing Russians for everything". Quite a number of people are getting sick and tired of this political monkey business by now, youngs declaring a "No-Smolensk day" on the Internet etc. Don't take a margin for the whole.
And more on-topic, yesterday finally an experiment was conducted after it's been announed for months, using the remaining Tu-154M (102): near the military airfield in Powidz the 102 crew re-created the way the 101 approached the Smolensk Severnyj airfield up to the height of c. 200m, and then executed a go-around, to test:
a) whether the "go-around" button doesn't in fact work without the ILS system support turned on, and
b) whether the use of the button leaves a record in the FDR or the "service box".
Officially the experiments were classified, unoffcially we have a (poor quality) amateur video of one of the tests:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/846025/102-experiment.flv
as well as four "Charlie" records:
113 TSA08ACD A035 F240 06:00 07:00 EPWA T154/KLZ
114 TSA08ACD GND F240 07:00 09:00 EPWA T154/KLZ/U.ASM3/W
115 TSA08B F135 F240 06:00 08:30 EPWA T154/KLZ
116 TSA08E A065 F240 06:00 08:30 EPWA T154/KLZ
and an unofficial leak confirming that the "go-around" button DID in fact work during the experiment.
Edit: guys from a polish aviation forum confirm that the latter should have been expected, and that at least the quick access recorder should have recorded the event of pressing the "go-around" button. That's the recorder that was sent by Russians to the Polish manufacturer a few days after the crash, as they weren't equipped to read it.