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Old 04-13-2010, 03:52 PM   #11
Mike P
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Now there are reports that the Polish president, in the past, overruled his pilots on flight decisions and ordered landings that were, at the very least, chancy.

It's clear that the Russian controllors advised the pilot to divert to either Minsk or Moscow, as the field at Smolensk didn't have a full ILS landing system--probably only a localizer beam without glideslope.

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