Perhaps Yanayev's crow beak smacked of prophetic reality, and two days before the start of the military exercises, Polish President Walesa's special plane was ready to rush to Rzeszow in the Carpathian Mountains, and then go to the military airfield on the border by means of a connecting plane, and after getting off the plane, he went directly to the designated military exercise site.

Recently, Walesa has been grappling with a public resistance campaign that they believe is playing a joke on Poland's border security, and they do not believe that the Soviet Union will not act after a military provocation in Poland. And Walesa did not expect that his practice of diverting domestic contradictions would attract criticism from others.

Obviously, he has to face a very bad situation, after all, he has to finish pretending to be on his knees. The date of the exercise was approaching, and Walesa could not refrain from rejecting the exercise of great significance to the army, so he could only make hasty arrangements for the exercise two days before the start and go to the Carpathian region where the exercise was being conducted as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, however, when Walesa arrived in Rzeszow in the Carpathians and was on his way to the airfield of the military base in Bilcea, he encountered a rare fog. The backward avionics system of the Tu-154 airliner is difficult to land safely under such fog, and the air base has shown that their ground navigation system is not advanced enough to allow a Tu-154 civil airliner with safety performance comparable to a 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, but he was transferred to an alternate landing elsewhere, but because the date of the exercise was approaching, he insisted on landing at the military airport under his feet. He also reprimanded the tower personnel on the ground. "As an air base, the ground personnel of the tower do not even have ground navigation for civil airliners, what is the use of the state spending so much money to support you? It's not for you to sit in front of a screen and talk, I don't care what you do. Anyway, I don't believe my plane can't land here. ”

Then Walesa patted the captain on the shoulder and said with encouragement, "I know you're the best, you're the best." You see that the Soviet civil airliner has also made a blind landing in so many bad weather conditions, why can't we? ”

The president, who had only an elementary and vocational school education, certainly did not know how risky a blind landing was, and it would be a nightmare to pair the Tu-154 instrument landing system with the airbase's blind landing equipment. As for the success of the blind landing of the Soviets, in most cases it relied on electronic equipment, and in a few cases it was based on its own judgment, and of course Walesa also ignored the bloody cases of blind landing failures.

If it were a normal situation, the captain would have rejected such a ridiculous proposal a long time ago. But because the other party is the president of Poland, he has no room to refuse, so he can only try his best.

Everyone returned to their seats and fastened their seatbelts, and the plane began to blind landing. It was very smooth at first. Under the navigation of the system, the plane gradually descended downward. Walesa looked out the gray window with a look of relief, but his relief was soon interrupted by a jolting vibration.

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Just as it was about to reach the ground, the blind landing system suddenly issued a warning that the plane was descending below the glide line provided by the blind landing. At this time, the flight personnel wanted to correct the course but it was too late, and the plane was falling at a speed that deviated from the course and would soon crash into it.

The captain did his best to control the plane. I want to correct the mistakes I made before, but it's too late. Getting closer and closer to the ground reminded him of a dangerous word, crash and death. The co-pilot said in despair, "No, the data provided by our previous system was fundamentally wrong, and from the beginning our plane deviated from the glide line, leading us into a bigger mistake, and now there is no way to correct it." ”

Figure 154 The angle of descent is too large, the whole plane crashes to the ground, and flies forward with inertia on the runway of the airport, at this time the wings of the plane have been broken, and the constantly tumbling fuselage splits and disintegrates in the friction of electric light, and finally only one fuselage is left to roll out of the runway and fall into the jungle, such a thrilling scene makes a group of people on the tower stunned.

"My God, the president crashed?"

Some people have not yet recovered from the shock, but he soon 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 rush him to the hospital for treatment. Just as the troops arrived, several loud explosions suddenly came from the disintegrating and burning wreckage of the plane, and the dazzling light of the fire in the fog made the rescue troops face a bigger problem, how to find the Polish president wrapped in the raging fire in the fire.

The light of the burning fire was particularly dazzling in the depths of the misty forest, and even a vague layer of fog could make people see the huge fireball rising up from a few hundred meters away, just like a natural ground navigation sign, but the scene looked a little ironic.

It would take four hours to extinguish the blazing fire, and the cabin, which had been surrounded by burning flames for four hours, had no chance of survival. As soon as the fire subsided, military personnel entered the passenger compartment of Tu-154 in an attempt to locate President Walesa, but when they entered the cabin, all they saw was charred corpses, which were too vague to identify who was who.

A total of 39 bodies were carried out in body bags, one of which could be identified by the ring on his body as the president of Poland, who died of a sharp steel pipe in the chest during the crash and disintegration of the plane. Of course, all this is a preliminary judgment at the scene, and the final result will have to be handed over to a professional forensic doctor before it can be confirmed whether the charred body is Walesa himself.

The offensive exercise, which had been carefully prepared to curry favor with Walesa, was cancelled, and all soldiers were ordered to remain in the camp and not to leave until it was confirmed that the cause of the president's death was not a deliberate attempt. After all, the president's plane crash is too sensitive.

The staff of the Polish presidential palace held an emergency meeting, and after confirming that no one had survived the crash, they began a secret meeting to discuss who would be the successor to the functional officials of these government departments, knowing that the Polish president was not the only one in the dead zone, but also other government entourage, and even the deputy minister of defense, Kharsky, died in the crash.

There are always people who need to fill the vacant positions, so the power vacuum has led to a group of people starting to find ways to get a better position for themselves, which is the same in politics around the world. The death of the Polish president brought them hypocritical grief, real joy. On the surface, it is a deep mourning, but in the heart it is an irrepressible cheer.

Morowski, the speaker of the Polish House of Representatives, took Walesa's place as the new president of Poland, and as soon as he took office, he began to investigate the accident, hoping to give an accurate account to the people.

This day became Poland's National Disaster Day, and Walesa was supposed to go to the flower laying event on the anniversary of the Katyn tragedy five days later, but he did not expect to become the protagonist of the Polish tragedy first. When Morowski assumed the presidency of Poland, he stressed on television that he would definitely give an explanation to the people of the whole country, confirming that the death of the Polish president was not a deliberate act of some hostile forces, that Poland could be lost, but that it would never be defeated by despicable people, and that any enemy who tried to harm Poland would be dealt with and sanctioned. But the most ironic thing is that because of the plane crash, Walesa's domestic support rating is much higher than before.

In the face of such a feel-good Poland, only Yanayev spread his hands and said helplessly that all this really has nothing to do with the Soviet Union, and we will definitely not carry this pot. (To be continued.) )