MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti) – France has launched manslaughter charges in connection with the death of the country’s oil giant Total’s head in an air crash in Moscow involving a snowplow during takeoff, French news agencies reported Tuesday.
According to Direct Matin newspaper, the French Office of the Prosecutor launched the proceedings after the private jet of the head of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, collided with a snowplow in a Moscow airport, killing all four people on board the aircraft.
The Falcon 50 jet crashed late Monday night in the Vnukovo-3 Airport in Moscow after the aircraft hit a snow removal vehicle on takeoff. The aircraft was flying from Moscow to Paris with de Margerie as the only passenger on board besides three crew members, also French citizens.
Russian investigators have confirmed that the driver of the snowplow was drunk.
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