Announced preliminary cause of the accident aircraft with the former president of the company Total – BFM.Ru

snowplow driver and shift supervisor airfield services were drunk

The Technical Commission established a preliminary cause of the accident the French “Falcon” at Vnukovo airport that killed the president of Total Christophe de Margerie . By accident resulted in a series of errors of different services, the newspaper “Kommersant”, which managed to get acquainted with the report of the subcommittee to investigate flight emergency.

The report confirms the experts voiced earlier findings of the investigation that the driver of a snowplow Martynenko was drunk. Was drunk and shift supervisor Ledenev aerodrome service, which was to follow the snowthrower.

According to the instructions, before leaving they had to undergo a medical examination. Doctor ought to check your heart rate and blood pressure, but this procedure at the airport was canceled due to the fact that the test is time consuming and could cause delays departures. As a result, the doctor was limited by visual inspection, the report said.

In the area of ​​emergency was also “Gazelle” electricians – they were called because of the broken lamp airfield. It was after this machine suddenly went snowblower Martynenko. As established experts, drunk driver “lost orientation in space”: most likely, he took back lights “Gazelle” snowthrower for dimensions, for which was to follow in accordance with the work plan. Leaving at the intersection of runways and suspecting his mistake, the driver was confused and instead contact your supervisor, he began to perform “acts contrary to all logic”: stopped, handed back, tried to turn around, experts say.

See also: The former head of Total Christophe de Margerie posthumously became an officer of the Legion of Honor In turn, shift supervisor Ledenev According to the report, all the time did not even try to find a lost snowthrower or report the incident to the dispatcher.

On the night of October 21 at Vnukovo-3 four-seater Falcon, en route flight from Moscow to Paris, during takeoff touched snow machines , caught fire and crashed on the runway. As a result of the crash killed three crew members and passengers – Christophe de Margerie. In a criminal case about a plane crash were arrested engineer aerodrome service Vnukovo Vladimir Ledenev, driver of the vehicle, collided with the aircraft, Vladimir Martynenko and Alexander Kruglov manager.

Two other defendants – the head of Vnukovo flights air traffic control center Roman Danube and Manager trainee airport Svetlana Krivsun – were sent under house arrest.