Continuing with Polish video, this is where I get the figure in red from, which is largely ignored in the, I suspect, later enhanced version of the Andrei Mendierej video.
I think it would actually need something more than a man in red, and again, maybe a reason from the lights being mentioned. I actually couldn't spot the person in red at all from the video being presented, but as you can see from an earlier post, there is an orangey-red blob in the background in other versions of the video, and in one section it appears to be moving. Though what's the significance?
There is an old man, who we assume is a bystander, and we have Andrei Mendierej, another bystander filming the crash; logically it might as easily been another bystander who also just got to the crash site if we are suggesting this is a real event. But no, people the other side of the crash are sinister murderers, apparently. But the next bit is worth adding.
I'm not convinced the ropes are actually being filmed at the time of the video. If you look at them in relation to the frame edge rather than the action, they seem to remain in the same place as Mendierej pans the camera, this gives a feel they are chasing him around. Again, at first reading it's hard to know what he's pointing out with regards to a yellow ribbon, but in a different version of the video it's easier to spot, the ribbon is at the end of one of the ropes.
At 45 seconds, with figure in red in the background:
I think the next part is a bit far fetched given the location of the crash to the airport, but it is where I got the idea to look up helicopter cranes which I mentioned earlier in the thread. The fact there is a story about a helicopter flying around on the day of the crash suggests to me there was a helicopter flying around on the day of the crash, and therefore a story was needed to explain said helicopter flying around on the day of the crash...Anyway, again these are grabs from a video that have been put through Google Translate.
The original story about the Tupolev making four passes in trying to land in the dense fog is likely the original explanation for prolonged and repeated aircraft noise passing over the airport on the morning of the crash. Because rather than dropping the story altogether, the official report states that between the Yak-40 carrying the journalists and the ill-fated Tupolev TU-154, an unnamed Russian military aircraft attempted to land at the airport making either two or three passes before abandoning the landing and diverting to another airport, I think Moscow. Is it reasonable to surmise those two or three passes, however the military actually did it, account for the fresh tree damage photographed as the journalists arrive at the crash scene?
Just to quote the section from the official report regarding the aircrafts said to be in the area around the time of the crash.
On April 10, 2010 the crew of the special air regiment of the Polish Air Forces including the PIC3, the co-pilot, the navigator and the flight engineer conducted a non-scheduled international flight PLF 101 Category "А" on Tu-154M tail number 101 carrying passengers from Warsaw (EPWA) to Smolensk "Severny" (XUBS). There was no leaderman-navigator on board the aircraft.
Besides the 4 flight crew members there were 3 cabin crew members, 88 passengers and 1 security officer on board making a total of 96 persons, all citizens of the Republic of Poland.
According to the first request for flight the departure from Warsaw was planned for 8:30. However later the flight plan was modified and the departure time was shifted to 9:00. The takeoff from Warsaw was actually conducted at 09:27 with a delay of 27 minutes as per the modified flight plan.
The cruise flight was conducted on FL330 (~10000 m).
At 10:09:30 being controlled by the Minsk Control the crew requested estimated descent to 3900 m which was cleared.
At 10:14:30 during the descent the Minsk Control informed the crew that the visibility at Smolensk "Severny" Airdrome was 400 m, fog.
Before that, at 9:15 a Yak-40 aircraft flight PLF 031 landed at Runway 26 at Smolensk "Severny" Airdrome.
During the approach of the Yak-40 the weather started getting worse (at 9:00 the visibility was 4 km, while at 9:06 it decreased to 2 km) as the fog that had started to form in parts of Tula, Kaluga and Smolensk Regions after 04:00 was drifting from the south-east to the north-west.
During the two approaches of the Russian IL-76 aircraft tail number 78817 (from 09:20 to 09:39) the weather conditions at Smolensk "Severny" Airdrome were getting still worse. Making two approach attempts the IL-76 proceeded to an alternate airdrome in Moscow. The weather measurements taken at 09:40 showed that the weather conditions (visibility 800 m, cloudbase 80 m) got below the airdrome minima (100x1000) for landing at RWY 26 using the radar + 2NDB landing system.
At 10:22:30 over the ASKIL navigation point the Tu-154M aircraft was handed off to the Moscow Control. The ATC cleared it for further descent to 3600 m and then the aircraft was handed off to the ATC group of Smolensk "Severny" Airdrome , callsign “Korsazh”.
The crew established radio communication with the Control of Smolensk "Severny" airdrome at 10:23:30.
The ATC CATC of Smolensk "Severny" Airdrome clarified the remaining fuel (11 tons) and alternate airdromes (Minsk, Vitebsk) and informed the crew that at Korsazh it was foggy, visibility 400 m, no conditions for arrival. In addition he informed that the temperature was +2o C and the QNH was 745 mm mercury.
Despite the actual weather that was below the airdrome, PIC’s and aircraft minima, at 10:25 the crew requested a “trial” approach. Considering the provisions of the Russian AIP, the Controller cleared the crew to approach but later warned the crew not to descent below 100 m and required them to be ready for missed approach from that altitude.
In the course of further descent and flight at circuit altitude (500 m QFE) the crew of the PLF 101 flight contacted the crew of the Yak-40 (PLF 031 flight) that had landed earlier. The Yak-40 crew several times informed the crew of the Tu-154M on the unfavorable weather conditions, last warning given before the latter approached the final turn. The Yak-40 crew transmitted that the visibility at the airdrome was 200m.
The Tu-154M crew continued approach and final descent. At a distance of 1100 m from RWY 26 threshold and about 35 m left from the extended runway centerline the aircraft first hit the top of a tree at a height of about 11 m above ground level. The impact occurred before the middle marker (1050 m distance from RWY 26 threshold). The terrain elevation in the middle marker area is 233 m, the RWY 26 threshold elevation is 258 m. Thus, at the time of the impact the aircraft was about 15 m below the RWY 26 threshold.
Further, 245m from the point of the first impact with a lateral deviation of about 60m left from the extended runway centerline the aircraft hit a birch with the trunk 30-40m cm wide which led to the damaged left wing and significant left bank. Further the aircraft crashed inverted and was totally destroyed. The emerging insignificant ground fire at the accident site was extinguished by the arriving fire fighters 18 minutes after the accident.
As a result of the crash all the passengers and crew members on board died. The accident occurred at 10:41:06.
— Pages 11-13, AIR ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION COMMISSION FINAL REPORT
So as I mentioned, between the Yak-40 and the Tupolev TU-154, there was a Russian military aircraft apparently attempting to land for nineteen minutes, could it just be possible that it spoofed the call-sign of the Tupolev in a similar way that is surmised for MH17 crash in 2014, discussed earlier in the thread.
The Russian plane is stated in the report as a IL-76, so let's look it up. The following is from a report about a possible downing of a Ukraine Il-76 from March 2023, but it serves the purpose with regards to us understanding the standard specs of the plane.
Il-76 Aircraft - The aircraft is equipped with a defensive aids suite, including radar warning, jammers, infrared flare cartridges, chaff dispenser and two guns with a fire-control radar. Aerial bombs or radio beacons are suspended from external bomb racks on detachable pylons.
Fuel is kept in 12 integral tanks, which are isolated from each other. Fuel tanks are divided into four groups by the number of engines. An inert gas system is used for protection against explosion. The integrated flight control and aiming-navigation system includes a compass system, ground surveillance radar, a central digital computer, automatic monitoring system, automatic flight control system, short-range radio navigation and landing system, IFF transponder, optical / infrared aiming sight and a ground collision warning system. Ilyushin Il-76, also called Il, -76, Soviet military transport aircraft, first flown in 1971 and first produced in 1975. It was designed by the Ilyushin design bureau under G.V. Novozhilov. The Il-76 was a heavy transport plane, capable of handling a payload of more than 88,000 pounds (40,000 kilograms).
It was equipped with two cranes that traveled on overhead tracks, and its rear ramp doubled as a hoist. Unlike most military transports, the Il-76 was armed, with two guns in a rear turret. Its four turbofan engines produced 26,455 pounds of thrust each.
The first aircraft was delivered in May 2009, while the second and third aircraft were handed over in March 2010 and mid-2011 respectively. The Il-76MD variant has an increased flight range and service life. The power plant and systems are identical to those of the Il-76M.
Structural changes have been made to its airframe only to accommodate the increased service life and increased take-off weight. The air-drop and cargo handling equipment is intended to load, unload and air drop paratroopers and cargo, make the optimum arrangement of the cargo according to the logistical demands of the mission and securely tie down the cargo.
What did I say about the light bulbs maybe being changed to infrared? That was just a guess because I know an infrared filter on a camera removes haze/mist so you can see through it with say a P900. And what's the IL-76 got, an "optical / infrared aiming sight and a ground collision warning system", and it can drop cargo and chaff. Do we fancy we can guess what it was doing in the air above the airport for those 19 minutes?
I'll finish the Jane Burgermeister transcript before continuing on to the trees, at this next point she is going into supposition, hitting all the main talking points of the alternative narrative that the plane was brought down and asserting it is "a likely scenario".
When we take all these facts together, a likely scenario is that the pilot approaching Smolensk airport was given false information about the real location of the runway and was lured into landing in the woods close by.
An explosion could have torn away the left wing of the plane as the pilot was descending to land. When the plane crashed in that part of the woods, a small group of individuals could have gone through killing the crew on board.
The absence of all bodies can be explained by, if you posit that these top generals, the central bank governor, the security chief, the two presidential opposition candidates and large numbers of the opposition party in parliament were not on the plane at all, that they were killed or kidnapped in Poland, and their disappearance is simply being accounted for by claiming that they died as part of this plane crash.
These are the questions that many Polish people are now discussing on internet forums, on blogs, and also here on the street in Poland.
I would agree with her, the absence of all bodies can be explained by the idea they were not on the plane, but is there any reason to think they were killed in Poland? Not going by the plane seat debacle. Clearly they were just names on a boarding list, and the people who set the crash up wanted an excuse why none of the journalists were killed when they would usually travel on the same plane with the President. Remember, reading the transcript of the account given in January 2013 by (still wearing black) Magdalena Merta, the "Smolensk Widow"; the journalists had to be at the Warsaw airport for a 4 AM takeoff, the Tupolev TU-154, three hours later at 7 AM.
The Tupolev left Warsaw at 9:27 AM and crashed a 10:41 AM, having not spent time circling around the airport, the flight took 1 hour 14 minute. We don't know what time the Yak-40 carrying the journalists took off, but we have an arrival time of 9:15, that's 1 hour 26 minutes before the Tupolev. So why did the journalists, according to Magdalena, have to be at the Warsaw airport three hours before the generals? If we believe Magdalena, which I don't, the Tupolev TU-154 was due to take-off at 7 AM, but let's suggest that's actually check-in time. That fits with a take-off of 8:30, dropping back to 9 AM, then delayed to 9:27. A bit shoddy for people serving the President of Poland don't you think. But if we use the same formula for the Yak-40 to fill in the missing information, the journalist had to be at the airport for 4 AM, we would expect a take-off time of 5:30, maybe dropping back to 6 AM. That would get the plane in for 7:14 using the Tupolev's flight time, not 9:15. Where did the extra 2 hours 1 minute go?
We can probably see why Magdalena came up with the tall story about a Casa 295 M being the plane they were meant to fly out on and it being swapped out with a Yak-40 because the Casa had engine problems. It would seem a way to explain why the journalist were apparently told to arrive at the airport three hours before the generals, but ended up only taking off around and hour and a half before them. This is even though according to the request letters in the official report, no Casa was on any of the flight plans and no permission was requested for one to fly into Russian airspace on that day.
Finally, it is worth noting, the 'MM' in Magdalena Merta, which people usually reference to 33, actually has another number code. 'M' is the 13th letter of the alphabet, 1+3 = 4, so justifiably, MM = 44, the death number.
From part one of the Grzegorz Braun film we are led to believe this is footage of the journalists waiting at the airport for President Lech Kaczyński's plane to land.
So why exactly was their flight booked three hours before the main party, as according to the Smolensk Widow? Let's book two flights three hours apart and make the people on the first flight stand in the airport carpark for three hours. Maybe not all the journalists got that pleasure, we can assume some headed off to the Mass preparations, but the ones filming and being filmed here have apparently been standing around for an hour and a half waiting for the second flight to land.
And on that front, if we switch from the official report of the crash to the brand spanking new, released in 2022, 'THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR REINVESTIGATION OF THE AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT', PDF here, we find a series of witness statements, but strangely enough, no statements from any of the people pictured who are apparently waiting for the Tupolev to land. And being journalist, we could assume they knew exactly what kind of information they should have taken note of in order for them to write accurate accounts of what they heard as bystanders at the airport the plane crashed at. Surely they'd be classed as reliable witnesses?
This is a Polish report, so you'd think if it isn't just a money-pit, it would feature testimonies from the Polish journalists that had been on the Yak-40 and were waiting for President Lech Kaczyński's plane to land. I've not gone through the 326 page 2022 report in any detail yet, but the witness statement section only takes up around four pages, and that's being generous, as half of that is pictures. Guess what? They are all testimonies from Russians. The main ones are from people working in the area, the following map indicates the given locations for these individuals at the time of the crash. Six in total, two people in the same location. Do you notice the airport is cut off, they want us to conveniently forget the people apparently waiting just off shot to the left.
None of them give accurate times. According to the official report, the crash took place at 10:41 AM, that's a pretty definite timestamp. First person, no time, second one says he "arrived at work at 10 AM, I went to the window and heard the sound of a plane", no clarification if that was forty minutes later. Third witness, around 11 AM he went for a smoke in the street, he "heard the noise of an aeroplane engine".
Fourth witness, longest and most in-depth testimony, Slawomir Wissniewski, film editor TVP. From what I can understand, the Andrei Mendierej video which I've littered this thread with, the original story surrounding it is that journalist Andrei Mendierej filmed it, posted it to youtube, for some reason Info Wars, Prison Planet and I guess the Polish equivalent found it straight away, then Andrei Mendierej was stabbed in the street, rushed to hospital, then someone else finished him off by taking his tubes out, something like that. This all happened almost instantly of the video being shared on the internet. Later, it is claimed that story is bogus and actually Slawomir Wissniewski made the film in the woods. This is his testimony in the 2022 report:
After a while, I began to hear the sound of the aircraft's jet engines. In my opinion, as far as I am able to judge, the sound was rather strange, that is, it sounded different from the sound of landing aircraft that I had heard before. It was certainly louder and seemed to be running at a higher rotation than the landing one. I would say that it was not the pure, steady sound of a jet engine. The characteristic whistle of a jet engine could not be heard. The impression was a bit like the sound was stifled, throttled. It is hard to describe, but I was intrigued by the sound, so I looked out the window. I saw, more or less at the height of the road, on the left, at a distance of about 400 m, the outline of the wing of an aeroplane inclined at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground. You could say that the plane was flying sideways. In my opinion, the wingtip was not scratching the ground, but was just above the surface. You could hear a rasp and a noise. In addition, I later saw traces of sawdust and pieces of wood on the road surface. The asphalt surface was not damaged. The outline of the wing disappeared among the trees growing on the other side of the road. I heard the squeal of tyres of braking cars. After a second, maybe two, I heard a loud bang - it was one thunder. I felt the blast of a shock wave. A moment after that bang, I saw a small pillar of fire slightly to the left from where my wing disappeared. — Slawomir Wissniewski
Looking him up, I've found another witness testimony by him from another Jane Burgermeiste report, dated April 25, 2010. This makes it clear, his film is a different one, and it mentions Andrei Mendierej as being Ukrainian; he would be, wouldn't he.
Polish TV journalist Slawomir Wisniewski who was among the first to reach the crash site of the Tupolev plane containing key Polish military and civilian figures, including the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, has said that he believes there was no one on board the crashed plane apart from the crew.
In an interview with a Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita (RZ), he said he saw no evidence of bodies or personal belongings.
“There was no sign that 100 people had been killed by the crash,” he said.
“There were no seats, suitcases, bags, simply nothing and above all no human remains and there was a terrible silence at the site,” he said.
Wisniewski said that he had filmed another plane crash in 1987 and had seen the remains of bodies everywhere.
“The fact that i did not see them in Smolensk made me suspect that there were no passengers on board, and only the crew…” he said.
Wisniewski was manhandled and thrown to the ground by Russian secret service agents, who confiscated his film, but managed to keep the tape that was later put on the internet.
Another film of the crash site that appeared on April 11 and that was shot by a Ukrainian journalist using his mobile phone also shows no sign of bodies. According to internet reports, the journalist died in hospital in Kiev after being attacked with a knife and after his life support system was disconnected.
The absence of any sign of bodies will fuel speculation that the Polish elite were lured to the airport or another location and abducted in Poland and then taken to prisons, possibly even CIA-run prisons, for interrogation before being killed. The plane crash in Smolensk was then staged to explain their disappearance.
The Polish central bank governor, national security chief and top army generals allegedly died in the crash as well as the president, two presidential candidates and much of the opposition party, clearing the way for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to follow pro euro, pro-IMF and pro-Gazprom policies that will enrich the Globalists.
There have also been reports of Polish agents entering the office of one crash victim to search through files two hours after the plane crash was announced, suggesting the crash was planned.
The two videos of the crash site taken from the article below:
Video from Polish TV journalist Slawomir Wisniewski
Video from journalist Adrij Mendierej [replacement, original removed from Youtube]
Back to witness testimonies, fifth witness, no time stated, but references to crackling that definitely wasn't gunshots, and sixth witness, no time stated, he saw the plane, it was shaking, "there was a noise, like a bomb".
Then there are three short paragraphs given by unnamed people from the media the day after the crash, so not in relation to any investigation, and no attempt to reinterview for better clarity. Two Russian, one Polish, no time given, the three basically say the same thing. From the POLSAT 11.04.2010 quote:
I had been here for 15 minutes when I saw a plane flying low. Something bad was happening. It was cutting down trees, then you could hear a big bang, like a bomb going off.
It is crystal clear why there is no testimony from Polish media people. Jurisdiction with regards to the law. As a Polish national, you wouldn't want to perjure yourself by telling a big porky to an official Polish investigation, would you? The fact there are no Polish nationals giving witness statements, just like there are no Polish nationals who claim to have seen any bodies at the crash site, nor any Polish nationals involved in the identification of the body remans before they were apparently sealed in caskets in Moscow, all speak louder than words.
That second Slawomir Wissniewski video was very useful. You might remember I was talking about the footsteps we can hear in the Andrei Mendierej video, and that they didn't make sense with regards to the ground travelled. Well it becomes clear the entire video has been speeded up to give a more frantic feel, and therefore the soundtrack is entirely fake, and the whistle sound we hear is that of a Russian train going through a level crossing as some have speculated. If you are not convinced, switch off the sound and run the video at half speed, you won't know for sure until you see the fires burning, watch carefully, they don't appear to be in slow motion.
With regards to the fires, they are seen in both videos, so we know they were filmed within minutes of one another directly after the alleged plane crash. We see two areas of fire in the Andrei Mendierej video, and we can match them in the Slawomir Wissniewski video, but not in the same frame.
Fires in the Andrei Mendierej video
Fires located on the Slawomir Wissniewski video
Confirmation of hidden fire and fireman arriving at scene
From the above pictures we know the two journalists were filming around about the same time, and in the Slawomir Wissniewski video, we see a fireman arriving. I've heard the firemen arrived 14 minutes after the crash, but without checking, the official report states they arrived 18 minutes after the crash, we therefore have a timeframe for the Slawomir Wissniewski video.
So, updating the ground plan I used earlier, I have remover the Andrei Mendierej's path based on footsteps, and changed it to be more consistent with what is seen at half speed. I've added Slawomir Wissniewski's path. Both are rough estimations to give an overview of where they are filming from, '12' on the plan is confirmed as the vertical section of the stabiliser Wissniewski is filming.
Plan showing where Mendierej and Wissniewski were filming
This is where it gets interesting, we know the two videos were filmed minutes apart by the fires, but how far apart? Could it be so close they are actually filming different parts of the crash site at the same time?
In the digital enhancement version of the Andrei Mendierej video, there is a zoom-in on a person that is allegedly holding a gun, and then a gunshot is heard. The forum topics at the time where suggesting it was Russian special forces shooting the pilot. I've done a crop-in on the closeup, slowed it down to make it easier to see, and put a grey frame at the end so we are clear where it begins and ends. We see two people for a couple of frames, one disappears into the background, then begins to reappear in the last two frames. The other guy is far more clear, we can't see his head, but he is walking over uneven ground and definitely holding something pointy. Have you guessed what it is yet?
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If we switch to the Slawomir Wissniewski video, we get a better idea what we are looking at. See the two firemen, one is holding a hose, and a little later proceeds to use it to put out the fires; the other man behind him looks like he stumbles and falls.
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So if the two videos are filming the same event from different angles, is there a chance the Slawomir Wissniewski video captured Andrei Mendierej filming his video? And the answer is yes.
There is at least three people moving in the area to the left, I think four, one has a white top, one is in black. I assume Andrei Mendierej is wearing the white top as he passes an old man in black in his video, and we can see from the grab above, a fireman in relation to the other arrowed figure, and this fits with the video detail captured above from the Andrei Mendierej video.
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The thing is, those four people are not the only ones at the site by the time the firemen arrive, There is another group standing to the side, a little nearer. It's easier to spot them in the video as they move.
Upshot, we can totally dismiss the idea of a special forces hit team. But, question is, I didn't do anything special other than watch the two videos that were originally next to each other on a website to conclude this fact, so thirteen years later, why is it not easily accessible in the public domain?
I guess for completeness, I should finish the Jane Burgermeister report transcript, but the Slawomir Wissniewski video leads nicely on to the trees. So to continue:
The timing of the plane crash is extraordinary. It happened 70 years to the anniversary of the first Katyn massacre when 22,000 Polish officers and academics and political leaders were killed by the Soviet security forces with the consent of Nazi Germany. Once more Poland finds itself leaderless, people here in Cracow in a state of shock. And many people are wondering who was behind this extraordinary event.
Bear in mind that Poland is the only country in Europe to have refused the swine flu vaccine due to the courageous action of the punish Health Minister Ewa Kopacz and Poland was the only country which had a central bank governor that postponed or was unwilling to allow the zloty currency to strengthen in respect to the euro exchange rate. A weak zloty benefited the economy by boosting exports and employment and tax revenues to the country. The National Bank governor had indicated that he wasn't prepared to take loans from the IMF, Poland is the only country that is not in recession in Europe. It actually is growing at 2.7% this year, I think, and 1.7% Last year, its debt is relatively low compared to other countries. And after the death of this central bank governor in the crash you can expect to see Poland absorbed into the Euro zone and increasing the size of its public debt very soon.
Indeed, the point of this happening on the anniversary of the Katyn massacre is a psychological operation by a behavioural insights team. How to get the Polish people to comply with our edicts? Control both sides of a narrative that implies the Russians in league with the EU murdered all Poland's top people in a plane crash in Russia.
