Association
of Polish Engineers in Canada, Ottawa Branch The
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada, Ottawa Branch The
Polish National Union of Canada, Ottawa Branch under
auspices of the Canadian Polish Congress
invite
you to the free public presentations and panel discussion (both in English) titled
UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS CRASH
OF THE POLISH PRESIDENTIAL PLANE TU-154M
Friday,
3 February, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Auditorium, Saint Paul University,
223 Main Street, Ottawa
The Polish
presidential airplane, Russian made Tupolev TU-154M, crashed on April
10, 2010, in Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people aboard, many of
whom were members of Polish Parliament and
high-ranking officials. The long list of
victims includes:
Polish
President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria,
Ryszard
Kaczorowski - last Polish President of the Government in Exile
(residing in U.K. until Dec 1990),
NATO
officers, including six generals (Chief of the General Staff, Chiefs of all
branches of Polish Armed Forces), and Vice-Admiral (Chief of the
Navy)
Current
state of affairs:
The
official accident report issued by the Russian Interstate Aviation
Committee (IAC, Russian acr. MAK) and its claim of the plane's
collision with a tree are not backed by evidence.
From
the beginning crucial evidence was tampered with and even
destroyed, including the key parts of the plane wreckage.
Passengers' phone conversations were withheld,
the cards from passengers' phones and cameras were erased,
president's phone has not been returned, etc. To
this day, the black boxes, and plane wreckage have not been returned
to Poland.
The
reported readings from the Flight Data Recorders
(FDRs) were altered
to misrepresent the situation in the cockpit during the final stage
of the flight.
The
autopsies data provided by Russians have been proven to be false.
Following Russian request, no post-mortem examinations were allowed
in Poland prior to victims' burials.
Independent
investigators proved that the disintegration of the aircraft started
26 meters above the ground, as a result of two successive
disturbances of unknown nature, which shook the aircraft. There is a
very strong indication of the involvement of a third party, or
parties.
The
Polish Parliamentary Group for the
Investigation of the Polish President Plane Crash
was formed by opposition MP's to investigate this case; however,
they have a very limited access to crucial pieces of evidence which
are being withheld by Russia as well as by Polish Authorities.
Polish
and Russian governments reject requests that NATO and the EU specialists
participate in the investigation.
The group
of international experts (listed below), will present the results of
analysis of currently available data. The presenters will debate the
latest findings, and clarify what could not have taken place,
challenging the scenario presented in the crash reports issued by the
Russian and Polish authorities. The experts, after presenting newest
findings, will answer questions from the floor. Honourable Antoni
Macierewicz will provide additional information about this tragedy
and the investigation process. This should help us to find out how we
Canadians could, or perhaps should, assist the investigation of this
enormous tragedy that entailed the biggest loss of commanding NATO
generals in history. What would we have done, if we lost our Prime
Minister, chiefs of all branches of Canadian Forces, and many of the
other dignitaries and civic leaders in a plane crash on foreign soil?
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Honourable Antoni Macierewicz,Member of Polish Parliament, Chairman of the
Parliamentary Group for the Investigation of the Polish President
plane crash. On June 29-30, 2011 the
committee published its interim report titled “White Book of
Smolensk Tragedy“. His committee continues to investigate all
aspects of the crash, relying on experts from Poland, U.S., Russia
and other countries. Antoni
Macierewicz is a politician, anti-communist activist, Member of
Parliament, and journalist. He was Minister of Internal Affairs
(1991-1992) responsible for the police and security services,which
entailedfull
access to the former communist archives, records of communist
intelligence and secret service agents. Later, as a deputy Minister
of Defence in the Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s government, he
spearheaded in 2006 the liquidation of the Military Information
Services (WSI), and became the chief of the newly restructured
military counter-intelligence service until the fall of Kaczynski
government. Official liquidation report, known as “Macierewicz’s
Report”, was published on 16 February 2007. The long list of
prominent names, former agents trained by Soviet GRU, was
published.The
report also contained detailed information on treacherous and
criminal activities of the WSI that continued until 2006.
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Dr.
Wieslaw Binienda,
F.ASCE,
Professor,University of
Akron, Ohio. Provided expert services to the Parliamentary Group for
the Investigation of the Polish President plane crash. Professor
and Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University
of Akron. His research interests include impact simulation, fracture
and damage of materials with emphasis on advanced composites,
explicit and implicit finite element analysis, smart materials,
structural design as well as optimization, characterization and
constitutive equation development for ceramics, metals and polymer
matrix composites. Dr. Binienda serves as co-director of the Gas
Turbine Testing Center at the University of Akron where he is
responsible for impact, material and structural experiments. He was
was elected n 2010 as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aerospace
Engineering. In 2004 Dr. Binienda received a prestigious NASA Award
titled "Turning
Goals Into Reality" for valuable contribution to Jet Engine
Containment Concepts and Blade-Out Simulation Team and Exceptional
Progress Toward Aviation Safety. In
2007 Dr. Binienda was honoured with the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) Fellow in recognition for his research
accomplishments. He
is also a recipient of the College
of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award and The
Louis A. Hill, Jr. Award
of the University of Akron.
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Dr. Kazimierz Nowaczyk,Assistant
Professor,
University of
Maryland. His
area of expertise includes Applied Physics, Mathematics and
Statistics, Data Analysis and Presentation, Instrumental Design and
Development, Spectroscopy: UV-VIS, Fluorescence, Phosphorescence,
Fluorescence Microscopy, computer hardware and operating systems. He
provided reports of detailed analysis of data recorded by on-board
instruments, TAWS and FMS logs, recovered after presidential plane
crash.
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Dr. Maria Szonert-Binienda,
Esq.,Libra
Institute, Cleveland, Ohio. Attorney,
a law graduate from the University of Warsaw, with post-graduate
study in journalism, she also earned Juris Doctor and MBA degrees in
the United States. Attorney Szonert-Binienda represents the Katyn
2010 Families Association in the Smolensk crash case in the United
States. Dr. Szonert is the Founder and President of Libra Institute,
Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of
understanding between the people of Poland and the United States. In
February of 2011, Libra Institute partnered with Case Western Reserve
School of Law in organizing an international symposium on the legal
analysis of the Katyn crime. Subsequently, Libra Institute organized
a conference on the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and presented
Expert Report from the Katyn Symposium to the US law makers.
Currently Libra Institute cooperates with the US National Archives on
the Katyn project to declassify and disclose to the public Katyn
related documents in the possession of the US Federal Government. Dr.
Szonert also serves as President of the Kresy-Siberia Foundation USA,
a charitable organization dedicated to the research, remembrance and
recognition of the Polish citizens repressed by the Soviet regime.
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The
air crash of April 2010 instantly eliminated the majority of
political and military leaders of the centre-conservative and
Polish-sovereignty political lobby (the Law and Justice) - the very
movement that stayed on guard of freshly gained independence of
Poland and its close ties with NATO and European Union. The Smolensk
disaster resulted in the immediate transfer of political power in
Poland to parties hostile to that formation. The power take over was
well-organized and happened within hours and days after the accident
took place. The circumstances of the crash and the political scandals
that surround its investigation - or rather the lack of it –
have created major doubts as to the real causes of the crash.
Some
Unanswered
Questions
Why did the Polish Cabinet surrender all the inquiries
to the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), and rejected
offers by NATO, the EU and
various countries to aid in the investigation?
Why,
starting from the first day of the investigation, the fuselage was
chopped into small pieces; windows shattered
and most of the vital
evidence destroyed?
Why
for almost two years were black
boxes and the wreckage of the Polish Air Force One Airliner not
returned to Poland, especially after the release of the final report
by the IAC?
How
could an almost 60 ton aircraft, after a crash
from a very low altitude, disintegrate into thousands of
unrecognizable pieces, and none of the 96 passengers survived?
Why
were many bodies disintegrated to the point that
they required DNA identification?
These,
and many more unanswered questions are awaiting answers.
Smolensk disaster was not an accident
Leszek Misiak and Grzegorz Wierzcholowski talk to Antoni Macierewicz, leader of Parliamentary Team for Investigating Causes of Tu-154M Catastrophe on April 10th, 2010.
Research work of Prof. Wieslaw Binienda, member of Expert Group for FAA / NASA Air Accidents, presented to Parliamentary Team for Investigating Causes of Tu-154M Smolensk Catastrophe, proved that the wing of Tu-154 should have cut through the birch tree, not the other way round, as stated by general Anodina and Jerzy Miller. The research results have also proved that such damage to the wing does not decrease its lift area or the plane’s stability. This overturns the fundamental thesis of both MAK and Miller’s reports. Results of Professors Nowaczyk and Binienda research are the argument for establishing an international experts commission.
The postulate of establishing an international commission is obvious in this situation, similarly as the postulate of legal prosecution of those who machinated in the case of finding cause of the catastrophe. First of all it is necessary to uncover what had really happened at Smolensk. It means carrying out all examinations from the beginning by independent experts. Expert opinion of Professor Binienda constitutes the key proof determining that the course of events was quite different then it is described by Anodina and Miller reports. The first proof is is expert opinion made in Poland stating the button “departure” may be effectively used to depart in automatic mode for a second approach to land. The second one – chronologically – the research of Professor Binienda showing that the wing did not break off after the hitting the birch tree. The third one – the information to which our team has pointed out many times – that the tragedy has occurred in the air, 17-15 meters above the level of the landing stripe, when electricity supply had been disconnected. Let us add to that the results of research of Professor Nowaczyk, who has proved that Tu-154 did not turn immediately after passing the birch tree, but much, much further and that it could not fly in the upside down position. And also that just beyond the birch tree two strong vertical shocks ! We have reconstructed main moments of Smolensk tragedy. It was not an accident and it was not the result of the pilots’ mistake… [click to get more...]