Poland is in possession of a recording of a conversation from 10 April 2010, between then Russian PM Vladimir Putin and then Polish PM Donald Tusk in Smolensk, western Russia, hours after the crash, Poland's Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz has said, Radio Poland reports.
Macierewicz told the Gazeta Polska weekly that Putin presented a version of events which “was inconsistent with” later reports by Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, and by Poland’s former Interior Minister Jerzy Miller.
Miller headed a commission investigating the reasons behind the crash.
Read alsoSmolensk commission: Black box recordings manipulated – Radio PolandMacierewicz said that in the meeting between Tusk and Putin just hours after the crash, “there is not a word about a birch tree, about the plane turning over on its back” theories which were quoted in the official Polish report.
The governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has opened a new commission to find out what led to the crash as the Polish presidential plane was attempting to land at the Smolensk military airport.
Read alsoTu-154 crash near Smolensk was Moscow's aim – Polish Defense MinistryAll 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, were killed in the disaster.
