Was This Crash an Assassination? / Polish Air Force Flight 101 Crashes with President on Board

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A Tupolev 154M carrying the President of Poland crashes while trying to land. Polish Air Force Flight 101 is carrying many high ranking Polish officials to Russia to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. The weather conditions make landing nearly impossible, but the pilots decide to try anyway. With help from Air Traffic Control, the pilots are guided down to the runway, but hit some trees and crash into the terrain. Many suspect Russia of foul play and claim that this crash was an elaborate assissination. What is the real cause of this crash? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Sponsored by HelloFresh (http://hellofresh.com/blackboxdown16 and use code blackboxdown16) SoloStove (http://solostove.com and use code BLACKBOXDOWN) and The Jordan Harbinger Show (http://jordanharbinger.com/start) Find us on social media and buy our merch here! https://linktr.ee/BlackBoxDownPod Go to blackboxdownpod.com to support us directly Black Box Down Crash Simulator: https://roosterteeth.com/watch/black-box-down-1 Tales From The Stinky Dragon: https://link.chtbl.com/stinkydragon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Risturziz production.
0:08.0	April 10, 2010. Polish Air Force Flight 101, a 2-polliv 154M with 96 people on board, is
0:15.6	seconds away from landing at Smolensk North Airport in Smolensk, Russia. This is a special
0:20.9	flight carrying high-ranking dignitaries to a memorial commemorating the 70th anniversary
0:25.7	of the Katjian massacre. The passengers on this flight include the president of Poland,
0:29.8	Lech Kaczynski. The weather at Smolensk is very poor with thick fog severely obscuring visibility.
0:35.6	Less than a mile from the runway, the plane is dangerously close to the ground and clips
0:39.1	some trees. The pilots try to climb to escape the danger, but it is too late. The plane
0:43.4	hits more trees and impacts the terrain killing all on board. Was this an accident or was
0:47.6	there possibly foul play involved? Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
0:51.9	Hello everyone, welcome to Black Boxdown. It's Gus and Chris. Hello, Chris. Hello, Gus.
0:58.7	So we often describe this podcast as like a true crime podcast in the air. This is an
1:05.2	episode that definitely has a lot more true crime aspects than most. Yeah, it got like
1:14.4	presidents and politics and accusations of foul play, which we're absolutely going to
1:22.0	dig into and talk about in this episode. Before we proceed, of course, we're back. We've
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