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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Email Print Reprints Full Focus Editor's choice A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Full Article Follow Reuters Crew under pressure to land Kaczynski plane: Russia Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook By Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plane carrying Polish leader Lech Kaczynski crashed killing all on board because the crew feared that aborting the landing due to fog would anger the president, Russian aviation officials said on Wednesday. The... Related News Polish lawyer says Russia's crash report "scandal" 6:25am EST Poland's Kaczynski says Russia crash report is "joke" 8:14am EST Related Topics World » Russia » Aerospace & Defense » A participant of a news conference is reflected on a computer screen showing the reconstruction of the TU-154 Polish government plane crash, in Moscow January 12, 2011. Psychological pressure on the crew of a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski to a ceremony in Russia may have led to the April 2010 crash that killed him and 95 others, Russian aviation officials said on Wednesday. Credit: Reuters/Denis Sinyakov By Lidia Kelly MOSCOW | Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:12am EST MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plane carrying Polish leader Lech Kaczynski crashed killing all on board because the crew feared that aborting the landing due to fog would anger the president, Russian aviation officials said on Wednesday. The late president's twin brother Jaroslaw condemned as "a joke against Poland" the Russian report on the crash, which killed many of Poland's political and military leadership and has tested ties between Warsaw and its former communist master. Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), presenting its final report, played a recording of the voice of a crew member as the plane neared Smolensk where Kaczynski was to attend a memorial for Poles massacred by Soviet secret police in 1940. "He'll get mad," said the crew member, in Polish. The comment was translated by the IAC into Russian. IAC head Tatiana Anodina said the decision to land despite bad weather was the direct cause of the April crash, which killed 96 people, also including Kaczynski's wife. "On the one hand, he (the pilot) knew the plane shouldn't be landing in these conditions, on the other hand there was strong pressure on board to bring the plane to a landing," she told a news briefing presenting the report. Anodina said the presence of Kaczynski on the plane and of Polish air force chief Andrzej Blasik inside the cockpit influenced the pilot's decision not to abort the landing and instead try to fly to an another airstrip. "The expected negative reaction of the main passenger (to a recommendation not to land)...placed psychological pressure on crew members and influenced the decision to continue the landing," Anodina said, referring to Kaczynski. There was no apparent evidence in the flight recording of any direct order from Kaczynski. Tests found Blasik had traces of alcohol in his blood, Anodina said. "NO SUICIDAL TENDENCIES" Jaroslaw Kaczynski dismissed the report's suggestion that his brother may have put psychological pressure on the pilots to land, saying: "my brother did not show suicidal tendencies." "The report puts the entire blame on Polish pilots and Poland without any proof...The report is a joke against Poland," he told a news conference, adding that his right-wing Law and Justice party would urge parliament to reject it. Prime Minister Donald Tusk cut short a foreign skiing holiday to return to Poland for talks with officials on the Russian report. Polish lawyer Rafal Rogalski, representing relatives of some of the 96 killed in a crash that shook Poland, rejected the Russian report as an "absolute scandal." 1 2 Next World Russia Aerospace & Defense We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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