Black box reveals pilots of Polish president's jet knew they were doomed and there was 'dramatic' flight deck speech

Pilots of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane knew they were doomed to crash in the final seconds of their flight, analysis of the black boxes shows.

A member of the investigation team has revealed there was 'dramatic' speech on the flight deck moments before the Tupolev-154 hit the ground in dense fog killing all 96 passengers and crew.

Polish expert Colonel Zbigniew Rzepa declined to reveal more but the country's attorney general Krzysztof Parulski admitted: 'Three to five seconds before the crash the pilots were aware that it was unavoidable.'

And he made clear that, with the plane travelling at 150 to 180 meters per second, there was sufficient time for Captain Arkadiusz Protasiuk and his flight crew to realise the catastrophe that was about to hit the plane and its passengers.

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