Below is simply a full fragment of the book “Poland at War”.
Presidential Boeing 737-800 NG On March 25, 2022, at 12.50 p.m., he took off from Warsaw Okęcie. The flight to Rzeszów was to take forty-five minutes. At Jasionka Airport, Andrzej Duda was to welcome Joe Biden, who made his first visit to Poland. However, Duda arrived late. The device returned after a fewer twelve kilometers. The pilot reported a malfunction.
Minister X: I got out of the chair erstwhile the signal was off. I was going to the bathroom erstwhile I felt a dense overload. It's like a pilot fighting a machine. He tried to choice her up at all costs so she wouldn't fall. My legs were so heavy. Actually, I couldn't go. I was on my way back, holding my seats.
Minister Y: – It was so weird. I didn't know what it was at first. The crew began to urge passengers to take their seats again. It got tense before the signal went off again to fasten the seat belt. It was shaking first. Then there was a strong overload. No 1 knew what was going on.
Minister X: The stewardess chased me back to my place. I knew something bad was going on. I sat down. I fastened my seat belt. We waited.
Military: – Even at the beginning of this unusual event, individual was joking. It's classical heheels erstwhile the plane shakes. Like a charter flight to Egypt. individual said if it passes, we'd give the pilot a circular of applause. The soldiers laughed that we were dumping fuel, although I don't think we dropped it. The words referring to Smolensk may have died. Kind of like a black humor. But rapidly those heheshes ran out. It was clear something very bad was going on. I haven't seen the president. I sat close to General Rajmund Andrzejczak's chief of staff. He was relaxed at first. But only at first.
“Poland at War”
"Someone came out of the cockpit. He was green and scared. He said nothing”
A man in close proximity to the president: It was shaking like hell. Everyone was looking at the military. Their reactions were a litmus paper of what was happening. We thought they knew best. Everyone looks at military situations like this, due to the fact that who should know if not them? The device belongs to the First Transport Air Base to drive VIPs. The military knew best how things were. However, their barracks humor rapidly subsided. It could only mean 1 thing, we'll land in an emergency.
Military: I asked Andrzejczak if it was bad. Confirmed. He wasn't in a good mood. I knew we were fucked. individual came out of the cockpit from the pilots. He was green and scared. He didn't say anything.
Minister X: I texted my wife there was a device problem. I said goodbye. The full plane was on fire.
Military: – It was decided that we were going back to Warsaw. After the pilot's fight for control of the Boeing machine, he began to lower the flight. The crew just let us know there's a malfunction. "Papa Lima Fox 101, Emergency Report. Mayday, mayday, mayday. We have a problem with the stabilizer, with the stabiliser trimmer" – this message was given from the presidential Boeing 737. The device had precedence on emergency landing in Warsaw.
A man in close proximity to the president: “We turned back over Warka and circled around Warsaw. The pilot had to decide where he would land in an emergency. He decided the optimal would be Okęcie. The crew argued that this was the best-equipped airport. There's a base where the device came from. However, it was clear from the outset that it was primarily about possible aid to passengers. First of all, passenger number 1 – if it were to turn out that we were in danger of disaster.
Military: The pilot determined the condition of the machine. He stabilized her. It stopped shaking. It seemed like we were gonna be okay. On board, however, there was a grave silence. There was no throwing whores. There was no panic. There was silence. It's empty.
A man in close proximity to the president: – Everyone knew that there is no taboo for flights with HEAD position in Poland. On April 10, 2010, the plane with the president fell. If that happened, why shouldn't we fall? It ruined morale. I thought: “How is this going to happen again? This is ridiculous."
Minister X: – After sending a message to my family, I just prayed.
president Andrzej Duda enters the Boeing 737-800 NG government aircraft "Józef Piłsudski"
A man close to the president: After landing, erstwhile the emotions went down, I was usually angry.
Military: – It was the longest flight of my life. I didn't want to join any more soldiers who died in disasters. I like war. Smolensk, however, is simply a disgrace. A failure of the state. Whether you are among supporters of the explanation about the assassination, or those who are convinced of Russian and Polish negligence. Well, it can't be that the second time, after 12 years, there's been this kind of embarrassment again. In Smolensk, VIP transport was given to LOT. He just returned to the army. The military began to regain authority in this area. fresh machines were purchased for astronomical sums. After tupolevism in London and trying to pack 2 into 1 plane, even a new, completely sensible HEAD instruction was written. A disaster would lead to a failure of religion that the state could embrace specified things. In Smolensk there was agreement that it could not happen again, but it did happen again.
Minister X: We were landing in grave silence. Nobody said anything. It was a completely surreal picture. erstwhile we got down to landing, there was no more method problems. The plane sat down normally. Nothing different happened.
A man in close proximity to the president: After the landing, erstwhile the emotions subsided, I was usually furious. Boeing was expected to be modern. It's not Tupolev or Jak, where there were ashtrays from the bus station and blankets in the seats. Those machines were seen as old scrap metal. Boeing changed everything. It didn't odor like fuel. It wasn't loud. The seats did not consist of themselves. It was comfortable. Why did it break down? Why did we gotta see shame again?
Military: – On Okęcie there is simply a building with a waiting area for VIP and journalists. There utilized to be alcohol in the newsroom. I just wanted a drink.
Presidential aircraft at Okęcie Airport in Warsaw
“The president did not say anything. He didn't comment. He did not interfere”
Zbigniew Parafianovich: What was the reaction of the president?
Minister Y: – On the flight, he was informed about what was happening. He didn't seem nervous. He didn't say anything. He didn't comment. He didn't interfere.
Minister X: I don't know if he was scared. I'm certain he didn't let me know. He's not going to panic in this situation. He was expected to fly to Smolenska on April 10, 2010. He doesn't care about the back of his head.
A man in close proximity to the president: After landing, we changed the plane to a second government Boeing 737. There was no time to comment or argue. However, I saw the president was very upset. He urged people. He cursed. Duda swears a lot. He doesn't despise curses. I can't tell you present whether he cursed due to a plane crash or due to the fact that we were truly late. We were expected to welcome Biden. Meanwhile, he was greeted by the head of MON Mariusz Błaszczak.
Military: They all got into the another machine. There was no conversation about what happened at Varka. The flight to Rzeszów ran smoothly. On the place I took the gag that we should baptize this corrupt Boeing as 737 “Varka”.
Minister Y: The Americans didn't ask about late. I think individual informed them there was a problem with our machine. They may have informed themselves. They seem to be listening to communications from their Global Hawk unmanned aircraft along the full dimension of the NATO east border. Before February 24, 2022 they flew it even over Ukraine, reaching for Donbas. It collects communications data. They must have had information about what happened between the tower and the Boeing that landed in Warsaw in an emergency. I don't know, possibly I'm overestimating them. However, I presume they had to know something due to the fact that in Rzeszów they were highly good and did not mention in any way to our considerable delay.
“This was not allowed to happen”
Minister X: – I remember that the opposition behaved in order. Even Radek Sikorski didn't hatred us for being late after it was announced that the Boeing had an emergency landing. There was nothing about flying on the barn door or comments like the president, specified an assassination. We didn't push the Americans about it either. But we could. The device was theirs. We just bought it. Moreover, they just got out of the confusion around the 737 Max Boeings, which fell due to method problems. I guess they had problem with the alleged drag. If we wanted to make this public, their company would have serious problems.
Military: – It was decided to analyse this incident. They were conducted by the prosecution and the State Commission for the Investigation of Air Accidents. I know that this was besides curious in the Minister of Service Mariusz Kamiński. MON besides conducted its own investigation procedure in the VIP transport database. We besides invited the Americans of Boeing to investigate. To them, this incidental was a large humiliation.
A man in close proximity to the president: – The president has been curious in this case for months. He asked me all erstwhile in a while what the result was. I didn't see the final report. But I do know that the database, which flies according to HEAD's instructions, was to undergo personnel changes. It wasn't publicized. They did not go back to the case not to heat the atmosphere and not feed conspiracy followers of theories.
Minister X: – Diversification and deliberate harm to the aircraft were besides investigated. We flew to meet Biden only a period after the war began. Nothing could be ruled out.
Minister Y: – We were flying to meet Biden, whom we wanted to convince to hand over the first batch of T-72 tanks to the Ukrainians. present fewer remember it, but the Americans at the time were opposed to supplying Ukrainians with any dense equipment. Biden did not give green light to tanks for Ukraine until after the gathering in Rzeszów. Earlier, the Americans scaled aid. They didn't want to set the conflict on fire. Only after Rzeszow and gathering in Warsaw in private did Duda – Biden the American president decided that Polish T-72 would go to Ukraine. In this sense, the Boeing malfunction was significant. If the plane fell, there would be no discussion of tanks. It would be chaos and an avalanche of accusations, not reasoning about war.
Military: – present it is known that there has been a failure of the stabilizer trimmer. There was a problem with the helm of tallness and the elements that are liable for the fact that the aircraft does not dive rapidly or rapidly rises. On the Polish side there was no breach of procedures described in the HEAD instructions. There was no problem with pilots. If the trimmer doesn't work, the pilot fights the machine. Hence, the feeling of any passengers that they were ‘fighting’ with the aircraft. Today, too, it is known that the pilot had no choice but to abort the flight due to the fact that it was dangerous. With the trimmer malfunction, it lands in the fire department. The airport closes then. another machines are waiting in the air.
Minister X: How the problem ended well. We were in Rzeszów at 3:00. An hr after Biden landed, who must have been in the Air Force for a while. They're due to the fact that it was assumed that we might be able to get along. We didn't make it. He was greeted by Błaszczak and later Biden went to meet with American soldiers stationed in Jasionka. They were paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division. Duda met with Polish soldiers from the 18th Mechanized Division, whose patron is General Tadeusz Buk. The 1 who died in Smolensk on April 10, 2010. This was the beginning of Biden's two-day visit to Poland.
Military: – specified a failure can happen on any aircraft, but not in the three-year Boeing that the president flies. It wasn't expected to happen.
