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04-10-2010, 06:32 PM
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Great White Scup Hunter
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Sad stuff,,,
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04-12-2010, 08:12 AM
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Crazy! Wife has been pretty upset the last few days.
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04-12-2010, 10:01 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cheferson
Crazy! Wife has been pretty upset the last few days.
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Tyler, give her our regards.
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04-13-2010, 06:17 AM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
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Horrible news.
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"Sunshine Day Dream"
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04-13-2010, 03:52 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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04-13-2010, 07:33 PM
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Is Russia to be trusted on this? Putin is personally supervising the investigation. He is a master of the coverup.
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04-14-2010, 08:21 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
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Originally Posted by stcroixman
Is Russia to be trusted on this? Putin is personally supervising the investigation. He is a master of the coverup.
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On this one, yes. The cause of the accident is pretty clear. If Russia somehow wanted this guy dead, someone forgot to clue in the Russian air traffic control guys who told the pilot to break off his approach and divert to either Minsk or Moscow, both of which have all-weather ILS landing systems. Clear cut case of controlled flight into terrain due to poor visibility, IMO.
Putin is the prime minister, and nominally at least, Medvedev as President outranks him (although most believe Medvedev to be Putin's puppet). As Prime Minister, he met with the Polish PM earlier and they toured the massacre site together. Medvedev was supposed to meet the Polish president there. By all accounts, relations between Russia and Poland are improving |
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