Moskva ulykken - Runway Incursion

Officials Look at Roles Played by Air-Traffic Controllers and Snowplow Driver

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An investigator looked over the jet-crash site in Moscow on Tuesday, in an image taken from video.

MOSCOW-Russian investigators blamed negligent airport management and the alleged intoxication of the driver of a snowplow that drove on to the runway for a crash that killed Total SA 's chief executive, as well as three crew members.

The accident highlights the risk of so-called runway incursion, a problem that rarely leads to fatalities and still affects countries with a better record of managing aviation than Russia, where safety remains spotty.

22 October 2014 Last updated at 11:57 GMT

Moscow Total plane crash snowplough driver 'got lost'

Mr de Margerie's plane crashed into the snowplough in poor visibility at around midnight on Monday

A snowplough driver at a Moscow airport has said he lost his bearings before a collision with a private plane in which Total boss Christophe de Margerie died.

Vladimir Martynenkov told Russian TV he was unaware he had entered the runway.
Mr Margerie, 63, chief executive of the French oil firm, was killed in the crash along with three crew members.
Russian investigators have alleged that the driver of the snowplough was drunk at the time, but his family has denied this.

Vladimir Martynenkov (L) signed his testimony beside his lawyer on Tuesday

The Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation. Mr Martynenkov, 60, was detained after the crash, which took place in poor weather at Vnukovo airport, south-west of Moscow, at around midnight on Monday.
His family insisted he was not drunk. "My client has chronic heart disease, he doesn't drink at all," his lawyer Alexander Karabanov told Interfax news agency.
"When I lost my bearings I did not notice when I drove out on to the runway," Mr Martynenkov told Russia's Channel One TV.
"The plane was preparing to take off, and I practically didn't see it or hear it because the machine was running. I didn't even see the lights, I did not see a thing, and then the crash happened."

Although there had been snow in Moscow, it was not thought to be lying thick on the ground when the Dassault Falcon plane clipped the snowplough and burst into flames.