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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12170021
12 January 2011 Last updated at 10:10 GMT
Smolensk air crash: Russia blames Polish pilot error
The crash traumatised Poland
Russia has blamed the Smolensk air crash which killed the Polish president and nearly 100 other people in April on Polish pilot error.
Investigators found that the Polish crew had failed to heed bad weather warnings because they were afraid of displeasing President Lech Kaczynski.
The presence of Poland's air force commander in the cockpit drove them to take "unjustified risk", they said.
'Landing at any cost'
Tatyana Anodina, head of the Inter-state Aviation Committee in Moscow, told reporters that the final report had been handed to Polish colleagues.
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The presence of the Polish air force commander on the flight deck up to the aircraft's impact with the ground put psychological pressure on the crew captain to decide on continuing descent in a situation of unjustified risk, dominated by the goal of making a landing at any cost”
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Tatyana Anodina
Head of the Inter-state Aviation Committee in Moscow
The disaster resulted directly, she said, from the crew's failure to heed weather warnings and land at a different airport.
In another development, Lech Kaczynski's twin brother, former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has said he doubts that the body entombed in a Polish cathedral last year is that of his brother.
"When I saw the body that was brought back in a coffin to Poland, that person did not look like my brother," he told reporters last month.
