Thursday, April 22, 2010

Polish Presidential Jet Crash - Coordinates

Wikipedia lists the location as-
200 m (656.2 ft) short of runway at Smolensk North Airport[2]
54°49′26.02″N 32°3′4.54″E
54.823894, 32.051261
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash

I followed the link looking for a nearby railway (the shooting-conspiracy video has the sound of a nearby train)...  I can not find a railway anywhere near the listed crash site.  Either the coordinates are wrong, or the video (audio portion) is a hoax, or I am missing something.  Here's a snapshot of the Wikipedia-listed crash site from Google Earth.  There is a nearby road but no railway.

Perhaps the video is a plant to discredit conspiracy theories related to the event.

According to Google Earth, the nearest railway is 1.89 miles from the crash site.