Andrzej Seremet
It is has been established that most of the passengers of Flight 101 failed to switch off their mobile phones for the duration of the Tu-154 flight from Warsaw to Smolensk on 10 April.
Over 50 percent of phones found were on at the time of the crash, which killed all 96 passengers on board, including President Lech Kaczynski.
Andrzej Seremet, the Prosector General, announced on Wednesday that the Internal Security Agency (ABW) is to be charged with investigating whom passengers were in contact with in the final minutes before the crash.
Seremet has underlined that prosecutors are not assuming that the mobile phones caused interference with inflight systems, but are not discounting it either.
Aviation experts have said that mobile phone sygnals do not have any bearing on a plane’s altimeter or airspeed indicator readings.
The chief prosector has also announced that Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president Lech, is to have a hearing as part of the ongoing investigations. A date has not been set for the meeting, however. (jb)
Source: Radio ZET
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