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20 May 2010
POLAND: New Details On Smolensk Plane Crash; Passengers in the Cockpit.
NYTIMES/ New details have emerged about the Polish plane crash in Russia that killed 95 and Polish President Lech Kacyznski including the revelation that two or more passengers were in the cockpit shortly before the pilots tried to land the aircraft in dense fog. Officials revealed that unidentified passengers were talking in the cockpit 16 to 20 minutes before the April 10 plane crash and that pilots had been warned at least once of poor landing conditions.