A Continuous Issue!

As far as I'm concerned, for almost a year now, the biggest issue in the Polish news is the ongoing investigation of the plane crash that occurred on April 10, 2010 which ended up killing President Lech Kaczynski among with 95 other heads of the Polish Government and crew. The list of all the passengers on board can be fonud on this Polish website. The ongoing investigation has caused a lot of tension between the Polish and Russian Governments. The Russian government released a statement which concluded that it was the error of the crew that lead to the plane crash. However, the Polish government has refuted that statement with one of their own which question the authenticity of the black box recordings released by the Russians. This debate has been going on for almost a year now, and more and more statements have been traded between the two sides.

As for my opinion on this argument, I think that this is an issue that will be ongoing for many more years to come. Ever since the crash happened, not a day goes by that the Polish news doesn't mention something about the crash, and something that is suspicious about the way the Russian Government has been dealing with the crash. To be honest, when I first heard the news, I too was a little suspicious that it was just a freak accident, but I'm not sure we will ever really know what actually happened. The Russian air controller that was taking  the plane through the landing procedures is nowhere to be found, and obviously all of the passengers on board have been killed. The problem is raised towards the pilots flying the plane.

Reports say that those two pilots have just went to Smolensk, the city where the crash occurred, just a few days before with the Polish Minister Donald Tusk. While landing on the day of the crash, the pilots experienced dense fog which limited visibility very drastically. Reports from the Russian side say that it was the pilot's choice to land the airplane despite many claims that the Russians warned them of the risks and offered a nearby airport as a safer choice. Whether this is true or not, is really hard to find out because Poland and Russia have always had some tension between the two countries. On that day, both sides were supposed to make the next step in becoming closer friends, but this accident has only made things worse.





That's it for now, enjoy the read!
'Till next week.