Soviet Union 1991

Perhaps Yanayev's bad mouth had a hint of prophecy. Two days before the military exercise began, Polish President Walesa's special plane was ready to rush to Rzeszow in the Carpathians, and then transfer to the military airport on the border. After getting off the plane, he went directly to the designated military exercise site.

Recently, Walesa was tired of dealing with the resistance movement launched by the public. They believed that Walesa's actions were a joke of Poland's border security. They did not believe that the Soviet Union would not take any action after Poland's military provocation. Walesa did not expect that his approach of diverting domestic conflicts would actually attract criticism from others.

Obviously, he had to face a very bad situation. After all, he had to pretend to be so powerful even if he knelt down. The date of the exercise was approaching, and Walesa could not refuse the exercise, which was of great significance to the army. He could only arrange the itinerary in a hurry two days before the start and go to the Carpathian Mountains where the exercise was held as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, when Walesa arrived in Rzeszow in the Carpathians and was about to go to the military base airport in Bilcha, he encountered a rare fog. The backward avionics system of the Tu-154 passenger plane made it difficult to land safely in such fog, and the air force base had already stated that their ground navigation system was not advanced enough to allow a Tu-154 civil airliner with a safety performance comparable to that of a flying coffin in the air to land safely in a foggy environment.

After the situation was reported to Polish President Walesa, he should have listened to the captain's advice and transferred to another place for an alternate landing, but because the exercise date was approaching, he insisted on landing at the military airport under his feet. He also scolded the tower staff on the ground, "As the tower ground staff of the air force base, they don't even have ground navigation for civil airliners. What is the country spending so much money to support you? It's not for you to sit in front of the screen and chat. I don't care what method you use, anyway, I don't believe that my special plane can't land here."

Then Walesa patted the captain on the shoulder. With encouragement, he said, "I know you are the best, you are the best. You will definitely be able to pass through this fog and land safely at the airport. Look at the Soviet civil airliners that have successfully landed blindly in so many bad weather conditions, why can't we?"

The president, who only received primary school and vocational school education, certainly didn't know how big the risk of blind landing was. Using the instrument landing system of Tu-154 with the blind landing equipment of the air force base is simply a nightmare. As for the Soviets' successful blind landing, most of the time it relied on electronic equipment, and a few cases were based on their own judgment. Of course, Walesa also ignored those bloody cases of failed blind landings.

If it were normal circumstances, the captain would have rejected such a ridiculous proposal long ago, but because the other party was the President of Poland, he had no room to refuse and could only try his best.

Everyone returned to their seats and fastened their seat belts, and the plane began to land blindly. It was very smooth at the beginning. Under the navigation of the system, the plane gradually descended. Walesa looked out of the gray window with a relieved expression, but his relief was soon interrupted by a series of ups and downs.

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Just when it was about to reach the ground, the blind landing system suddenly issued a warning that the aircraft's descent altitude was lower than the glide path provided by the blind landing. At this time, the flight crew wanted to correct the route but it was too late. The plane was falling at a speed that deviated from the course and would soon hit the runway.

The captain tried his best to control the plane and wanted to correct the mistake he made before. But it was too late. The ground getting closer and closer reminded him of a dangerous word, crashing and dying. The co-pilot said desperately. "No, the data provided by our previous system was fundamentally wrong. From the beginning, our plane deviated from the glide path, which led us into a bigger mistake. Now there is no way to correct it."

The angle of descent of the Tu-154 was too large, and the entire plane crashed to the ground, flying forward with inertia on the runway of the airport. At this time, the wings of the plane had been broken, and the constantly rolling fuselage split and disintegrated in the friction of lightning and fire. In the end, only one section of the fuselage rolled out of the runway and fell into the jungle. Such a thrilling scene stunned a group of people on the tower.

"My God, the president crashed?"

Some people have not recovered from the shock. But soon he notified the personnel to go to the scene to search and rescue the injured, and make sure to send the president out of the scene as soon as possible and send him to the hospital for emergency treatment. Just when the troops arrived, there were several loud explosions from the disintegrating and burning wreckage of the plane. The dazzling flames in the fog made the rescue troops face a bigger problem, how to find the Polish president wrapped in the blazing flames in the fire.

The burning flames were particularly dazzling in the depths of the foggy forest. Even with a layer of blurry fog, people could see the huge fireball rising up from hundreds of meters away, just like a natural ground navigation mark, but the scene looked a little ironic.

It took four hours to put out the burning fire, and there was no possibility of survival in the cabin that had been surrounded by the burning flames for four hours. After the fire subsided, the military personnel immediately entered the passenger cabin of Tu-154 in an attempt to find the whereabouts of President Walesa. However, when they entered the cabin, they saw only charred bodies. Because the burning was too blurry, they could not recognize who was who.

After the final cleanup, a total of 39 bodies were carried out in body bags. One of them was identified as the Polish president by the ring on his body. The unfortunate president died of a sharp steel pipe piercing his chest during the plane crash and disintegration, and his heart stopped beating. Of course, all this is a preliminary judgment at the scene. The final result must be handed over to a professional forensic doctor to confirm whether the charred body is Walesa himself.

The offensive military exercise carefully prepared to please Walesa was also cancelled. All soldiers were ordered to stay in the camp and no one was allowed to leave until it was confirmed that the cause of the president's death was not a deliberate murder. After all, the president's plane crash is too sensitive.

The staff of the Polish presidential palace held an emergency meeting. After confirming that no one survived the plane crash, they began a secret meeting to discuss who would be the successor of these government officials. It should be noted that the Polish president was not the only one in the dead zone, but also other government accompanying personnel, and even the Deputy Minister of Defense Halski died in the plane crash.

There is always someone to fill the vacant position, so the power vacuum led a group of people to start trying to find a better position for themselves. This is the same standard for political situations around the world. The death of the Polish president brought them false grief and real joy. On the surface, it was a deep mourning, but in the heart, it was an irrepressible cheer.

Polish House Speaker Morowsky succeeded Walesa and became the new Polish president. As soon as he took office, he began to investigate the accident, hoping to give the people an accurate explanation.

This day became Poland's national disaster day. Walesa was supposed to attend the wreath-laying event on the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre five days later, but he didn't expect to become the protagonist of the Polish tragedy first. When Morowski took office as the president of Poland, he emphasized on TV that he would give an explanation to the people of the country and confirm that the death of the Polish president was not the deliberate act of some hostile forces. Poland can be defeated, but it will never be defeated by despicable people. Any enemy who attempts to harm Poland will be hit and sanctioned. However, the most ironic thing is that Walesa's support rate in the country is much higher than before because of this plane crash.

Faced with such a self-satisfied Poland, only Yanayev spread his hands helplessly and said that all this really had nothing to do with the Soviet Union, and we will never take the blame. (To be continued.)

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