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VIP Passenger Syndrome or Crashing for not using English?
Here are two articles on the accident that killed the President of Poland together with 95 people, including the crew.
'VIP passenger syndrome' may have contributed to Polish plane crash
The role of the Polish president in the air crash in which he and 95 others died has been called into question amid suggestions he many have put pressure on the pilot to land despite bad weather warnings.
Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Matthew Day in Warsaw
Published: 8:18PM BST 12 Apr 2010
A Russian serviceman stands guard near the engine of the crashed Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft Photo: AFP/GETTY
One of the Russian air traffic controllers involved in the tragedy said he believes the Polish air force pilot Arkadiusz Protasiuk, 36, was under severe pressure 'to land at any cost' so that the president would not miss the commemoration of the death of 22,000 Poles slaughtered by Stalin.
But he claims there were also serious language problems between the control tower at the military airport near Smolensk and the crew as the aircraft began its descent, and final approach, 'without our permission'.
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