Where did carbon oxide found in the blood of 10/04 victims come from? “W Sieci” weekly magazine publishes the results of tests undertaken in Russia. Can the presence of excessive amounts of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood of at least four victims of the Smolensk crash be evidence of explosions on the board of TU-154M? Documents exist which make readers wonder how it is possible that bodies of the Tu-154M passengers contained amounts of carbon oxide exceeding normal levels.

 

Blood tests of four April 10 victims were conducted by Russians in the first days after the crash upon the request of Polish forensic physicians. The tests focused on the concentration of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), which levels are checked, among others, in people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of a gas stove failure or a fire. By means of this test it is possible to verify e.g. if the victim was alive at the moment when the fire broke out (in cases when the fire is set with an aim in covering traces of murder (for example)). This test can also play an important role in the investigation of mysterious air crashes.

 

Natural concentration of carboxyhemoglobin in human organisms does not exceed 2-3 percent, and in the case of smokers – it can reach a maximum of 12 percent.

 

Nevertheless, three people, as mentioned but not named by “Sieci” were non-smokers, and the level of carboxyhemoglobin in their blood was 6, 12 and 16 percent, respectively. The fourth person, Gen. Andrzej Błasik (the test report from his blood tests was published by the Interstate Aviation Committee) was a smoker, so the concentration of 7.7 percent in his blood comes as no surprise.

 

How could haemoglobin bind with carbon monoxide, reaching the concentration of as much as 16 per cent?

 

According to M.D. Grażyna Przybylska-Wendt, forensic medicine specialist quoted by “Sieci", explained that the victims inhaled the air containing carbon monoxide before their death.

 

The weekly magazine also quotes results of Polish researchers from two medical universities, which ruled out the possibility of CO transmission into the blood as a result of the presence of bodies in and around flames. Additionally, one of the bodies with increased COHb levels was found outside the fire impact zone.

 

The prosecutors should have been acquainted with these findings; however, they have not been directly presented in the Russian documentation.

 

In the protocol concerning one of the victims, the Russian party presented partial results of the COHb concentration test and the method of conducting the analysis, but in its conclusions it ignored the above data and findings: “Blood examined by using the Fretwurst- Meinecke method showed no presence of carboxyhemoglobin.”

 

Analogical entry was made with reference to the second person. In the case of the third person there was no mention whatsoever of COHb. In the case of the fourth victim 11 percent carboxyhemoglobin was stated (de facto it was 12 percent, when calculated without rounding up the result values), but the Russian chemist wrote down that such amount “does not have any toxicological importance”.

 

 

more information:

 

Injuries typical of an explosion. Documents reveal internally damaged lungs amongst victims - Autopsy documentation in some cases revealed emphysema, diagnosed and manifested as a result of alveolar destruction.

 

More than TNT - In reference to an article published in the weekly newsmagazine “Do Rzeczy”, the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office issued a statement admitting that in addition to TNT, devices used in Smolensk on the wreckage of the plane detected nitro compounds, octogen (HMX) and hexogen (RDX)

 

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