Heres my number one problem with the video. These so called rescuers come from the wooded area. If you take a look at the areial view of the crash sit and compare objects such as the position of the cockpit the "rescuers" are coming from the wooded area, unlike the guy filming who is approaching from the direction of the airport? The area the rescuers come from is nothing but a wooded area and i cant say for certain but they seem to be military. The main problem i have with that is the airport is a civillian airpost.
Smolensk North Airport (Russian
военный аэродром "Смоленск-Северный", "Smolensk North Military
Aerodrome") is a decommissioned
military airbase in
Smolensk Oblast,
Russia, located 4 km north of the city of
Smolensk. It is now used as Smolensk's sole airport for civil and military flights.
[1] It has a remote revetment area with 8 pads and a
Yakovlev factory at the southeast side of the airfield, the
Smolensk Aviation Plant.
The airport was originally built in the 1920s, and it eventually became a class 1 airfield with a runway 2500 m long and 49 m wide, capable of handling planes over 75 tons in weight.
[2]
Prior to 1991, it was home to the 401 IAP (401st Interceptor Aviation Regiment
[2], disbanded around 1990), flying
MiG-23P aircraft, and the 871 IAP, flying MiG-23 and
Su-27.
From 1946
[2] until 2009, the base hosted an airlift unit, the 103 Gv VTAP (
103rd Guards Military Air Transport Regiment, full name in Russian:
103-й гвардейский Красносельский Краснознамённый военно-транспортный авиационный полк имени Героя Советского Союза В. С. Гризодубовой),
[3] flying
Ilyushin Il-76 jets.
[4][5] At one point, about 28
Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft were based there.
The regiment was disbanded in the fall of 2009, and since then there have been no active units at the base except for a small airbase command post.
[3]