Word: minsk
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...crash has fallen on the pilot, who reportedly ignored warnings from air traffic control and tried to land on Saturday morning in dense fog, snagging the tail of his plane on a tree about a mile from the airport. "The pilot was advised to fly to Moscow or Minsk because of heavy fog, but he still decided to land. No one should have been landing in that fog," an air traffic control official told Reuters, indicating that recklessness may be behind the tragedy. Russian law enforcement officials said they had opened an investigation, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called...
...will carry out its own investigation into the causes of the crash. So far the most probable cause is the error of judgment on the part of the pilot, who attempted a second landing at the Smolensk airport despite being warned by traffic controllers to divert to Moscow or Minsk because of thick fog. When descending, the plane clipped the tree line and broke in two, resulting in the deadly crash that has sent Poland into mourning...