Claims by British experts about the explosion on board the Polish President Lech Kaczynski's Tu-154 plane during the crash in 2010 are false as they fully contradict conclusions by a wide range of experts involved in the investigation of the tragedy, Russia's Investigative Committee said Wednesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th April, 2019) Claims by British experts about the explosion on board the Polish President Lech Kaczynski's Tu-154 plane during the crash in 2010 are false as they fully contradict conclusions by a wide range of experts involved in the investigation of the tragedy, Russia's Investigative Committee said Wednesday."The information disseminated by the Polish side, according to which foreign specialists discovered traces of substances used in the manufacture of explosives during the analysis of the fragments of the Polish Tu-154M aircraft, is just another clumsy attempt to question the obvious," spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.
"The arguments of British experts are completely refuted by the experts' conclusions who carried out numerous forensic examinations, both in Russia and in Poland. These examinations were conducted in the framework of a criminal case opened by Russia's Investigative Committee," Petrenko stressed.
"According to experts, no traces of explosives or substances uncharacteristic of the materials of the aircraft's structural elements and products of its operation were found on fragments of the Polish Tu-154M aircraft," she added.
Kaczynski's plane crashed in April 2010, in an attempt to land at an airfield covered in heavy fog near Smolensk. All 96 passengers, including eight crew members and a number of high-ranking Polish officials, were killed in the catastrophe.
