TOTAL BOSS DEATH: MOSCOW AIRPORT CHIEFS QUIT OVER CRASH (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, October 23, 2014, 09:44

The chief executive of Russia's Vnukovo airport and his deputy have resigned after a plane crash this week that killed the head of France's Total.

The Moscow airport said in a statement that it had accepted the resignations of Andrei Dyakov and his number two, Sergei Solntsev.

Russian prosecutors have also detained five airport workers over the crash.

Christophe de Margerie and the private aircraft's three crew were killed when the aircraft hit a snow plough.

The Dassault Falcon plane was taking off as it clipped the snow plough and burst into flames.

The driver of the plough, one of the five being detained, was accused by the authorities of being drunk.

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