Air Crash Daily | Polish Air Force Flight 101 CVR Recording (Smolensk Air Disaster) @AirCrashDaily | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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On 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬, a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 (Reg. 101) departed Warsaw at 07:27 local time, carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, several Members of Parliament, President of the National Bank of Poland Slawomir Skrzypek, Chief of General Staff Franciszek Gagor, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrzej Kremer and a number of passengers and crew members.
At about 10:14 the flight descended through an altitude of 7,500 meters. Minsk Control radioed that the visibility at Smolensk Air Base was 400 meters due to fog. The same conditions were transmitted to the crew when they contacted the controller at Smolensk. The crew continued preparations for an approach to runway 26 at the Smolensk Air Base. Meanwhile, visibility worsened to 200 meters. The crew requested permission to carry out a 'trial' approach to decision height (100 meters) and asked the controller to expect a go-around.
About 18 seconds before impact the terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) sounded: "Pull up", followed by an aural warning: "TERRAIN AHEAD". About 5 seconds before impact the autopilot and autothrottle were disconnected in order to execute a go around. The plane contacted upsloping terrain at a distance of about 1,100 meters from the runway and 40 meters to the left of extended centreline. The plane's height at that point was 15 meters below the level of the runway threshold. The left wing struck a large tree causing the plane to roll inverted. The Tu-154 crashed and broke up.
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Accident Description: instagram.com/p/Cq49UezvsaK/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
On 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬, a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 (Reg. 101) departed Warsaw at 07:27 local time, carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, several Members of Parliament, President of the National Bank of Poland Slawomir Skrzypek, Chief of General Staff Franciszek Gagor, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrzej Kremer and a number of passengers and crew members.
At about 10:14 the flight descended through an altitude of 7,500 meters. Minsk Control radioed that the visibility at Smolensk Air Base was 400 meters due to fog. The same conditions were transmitted to the crew when they contacted the controller at Smolensk. The crew continued preparations for an approach to runway 26 at the Smolensk Air Base. Meanwhile, visibility worsened to 200 meters. The crew requested permission to carry out a 'trial' approach to decision height (100 meters) and asked the controller to expect a go-around.
About 18 seconds before impact the terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) sounded: "Pull up", followed by an aural warning: "TERRAIN AHEAD". About 5 seconds before impact the autopilot and autothrottle were disconnected in order to execute a go around. The plane contacted upsloping terrain at a distance of about 1,100 meters from the runway and 40 meters to the left of extended centreline. The plane's height at that point was 15 meters below the level of the runway threshold. The left wing struck a large tree causing the plane to roll inverted. The Tu-154 crashed and broke up.
