Episode 250 – Crashes of Convenience: PLF 101

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🗓️ 10 December 2012

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of April 10, 2010, an aging Tuploev TU-154M carrying the Polish president and many of the senior government and military officials of Poland crashed, killing all on board, near the Russian town of Smolensk. The Russian government quickly took over the investigation, pinning the crash on pilot error and adverse weather conditions. But from crash scene footage to mysterious deaths, traces of explosives to dramatic suicide attempts, there have been questions surrounding the incident since it took place. Today on The Corbett Report, we examine some of this evidence and go in search of the truth about PLF 101.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Corbett Report.
0:07.0	Corbett Report.
0:20.9	I'm your host James Corbett of Corbett Report.com,
0:23.5	podcasting to you as always from the sunny climes of Western Japan
0:26.9	on this 10th day of December 2012.
0:30.4	Welcome to episode 250 of the Corbett Report Podcast, Crashes of Convenience, PLF 101.
0:38.8	On the morning of the 10th of April 2010, a Tupalev TU 154M aircraft crashed in heavy fog on its approach to the Smolensk
0:48.0	North Airport, killing all 96 people aboard.
0:52.2	Like any such plane crash, this was a tragedy.
0:55.5	But having said that, this was not an ordinary plane crash. Good morning everybody. We have breaking news to start with we have a Fox News
1:09.6	alert because there's tragedy out of Russia. Investigators say that a plane carrying the president of Poland
1:15.1	has crashed and all people on board have been killed.
1:18.2	132 people are dead.
1:20.4	The plane carrying some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders.
1:24.0	Yeah, joining us on the phone right now from Warsaw Poland is Matthew Day with
1:28.1	Global Radio News. Thank you for joining us this morning Matthew. What can you tell us?
1:33.0	Well, the news is that the President of Poland and his wife have died,
1:38.0	along with scores of others, in a plane crash in Western Russia.
1:42.0	The President was traveling to Russia to take part of
1:45.6	commemorations of the Katin Massacre when thousands of Polish officers were killed by the
1:50.1	Soviet Union in the Second World War and it just ended in a complete tragedy.
1:54.8	Poland is a stunned nation at the moment.
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