Total CEO Plane Crash Leads to Resignations, Arrests in Moscow
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Two top executives at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport tendered their resignations today and Russian investigators detained four more employees following a plane crash that killed the head of Total SA.
Vnukovo General Director Andrey Dyakov and his deputy Sergey Solntsev resigned following the Oct. 20 crash that killed Total’s Chief Executive Officer Christophe de Margerie, according to an e-mailed statement from the airport. Russia’s Investigative Committee detained two air traffic controllers, a flight operations officer and the head airfield-service engineer in connection with the accident, in addition to the driver of a snowplow the plane hit, it said on its website.