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“The other half of the truth”, leads Gazeta Wyborcza, following a press conference 18 January by members of the Polish committee of inquiry into the 2010 Smolensk air crash that killed the Polish president, Lech Kaczyński, and over 90 VIPs aboard. According to Polish experts investigating the case, Russian air control in Smolensk “acting under pressure, made mistakes and failed to offer sufficient support to the crew of the Polish TU-154”. The press conference was Warsaw’s response to the “incomplete” report, “full of dramatic gaps”, drafted by the Russians and published last week, which laid all blame on the Polish pilots and flight organisers. “The causes of the disaster are like dominoes – when one falls, it topples another. However, most of the pieces of this tragic puzzle were toppled on our side”, stresses the Warsaw daily in its editorial.
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