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**Badyalectlawl** · 04-11-2010, 04:00 AM

Based on what I'm reading, the prevailing opinion is indeed that the president or someone else ordered to make the landing. The plane crashed roughly 40 minutes before the delegation was supposed to arrive in Katyn for the memorial, so obviously diverting to Minsk or Moscow would have caused them to be late. As such, the president might have ordered the landing.

There has indeed been a situation like that. During the war between Russia and Georgia, he flew to Georgia with also Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian leaders on board. The pilot said it's too dangerous to land in Tbilisi, was ordered by the president to do so, but in that case the pilot disobeyed and diverted to a safer area. IIRC, he was fired later, but don't quote me on that.

04-11-2010, 04:00 AM	#21
Badyalectlawl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	Based on what I'm reading, the prevailing opinion is indeed that the president or someone else ordered to make the landing. The plane crashed roughly 40 minutes before the delegation was supposed to arrive in Katyn for the memorial, so obviously diverting to Minsk or Moscow would have caused them to be late. As such, the president might have ordered the landing. There has indeed been a situation like that. During the war between Russia and Georgia, he flew to Georgia with also Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian leaders on board. The pilot said it's too dangerous to land in Tbilisi, was ordered by the president to do so, but in that case the pilot disobeyed and diverted to a safer area. IIRC, he was fired later, but don't quote me on that.
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