Moscow handed over to Warsaw all case materials into investigation of the Polish president's plane crash last year in Russia, an expert close to the investigation said.
Russian aviation experts filed on Wednesday a report on the causes of the plane crash that killed Kaczynski in western Russia last April. The report, which placed all the blame on the Polish side, in particular citing human error by the pilots, was criticized in Poland for lacking evidence.
Poland asked Russia to hand over the cockpit voice recordings, not just transcripts, from the Polish president's plane that crashed in Russia last year, the Polish Interior Ministry said on Friday. Edmund Klich, Poland's representative to the Interstate Aviation Commission (MAK) investigating the crash, said the commission had also failed to provide information on conversations between air traffic controllers.
"I am surprised by the MAK and the Russian government commission actions that they had transferred to the Polish side all that was possible, sometimes not even bothering to make copies," the expert said. "For example, the found at the crash site sim-cards, and something else."
Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin said on Thursday that the recordings were officially handed over to Poland shortly after the tragedy.
The Russian probe into the crash that killed Kaczynski and 95 other high-ranked delegates put the blame on the Polish presidential crew for their decision not to use a reserve aerodrome despite being informed of unfavorable weather conditions at their destination. Polish Interior Minister Jerzy Miller said Wednesday that Russian air traffic controllers should have banned any landing attempt by the crashed plane crew anyway.
Levitin said that according to the rules of special international flights, it is up to the crew commander to decide where to take off and land. He promised to study the recordings of conversations between air traffic controllers more closely.
MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti)
