MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – Four employees of Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, detained over plane accident which left the CEO of French oil giant Total dead, have been questioned as suspects, the Russian Investigative Committee said Thursday.
“All of them are suspected of failing to ensure compliance with safety rules for flights and airport ground operations, which resulted in a tragedy. The detainees have already been questioned as suspects,” Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
Total CEO Christophe de Margerie died when a Falcon 50 business jet he was travelling in hit a snowplow during takeoff and crashed, killing all the four people on board.
Along with the snowplow driver, who has been arrested, police has also detained four other people – a senior airport engineer, responsible for removal of snow from runways, an air traffic controller trainee and her supervisor, as well as the air traffic controller who was on duty at the time of the tragedy.
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