MOSCOW, November 14 (Sputnik) – Investigators found no signs of runway safety systems failure or plane malfunction during an accident that killed the CEO of French oil giant Total in Moscow last month, a Moscow-based air investigation authority said Friday.
“Lighting equipment of Runway-1 was in good order. Traffic controllers also had no complaints about how the airport surveillance radar worked on the day of the accident,” the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said in a statement.
“The study of the plane’s fragments and information extracted from the flight data recorder indicate there were no failures in the plane’s systems and engines when it hit the snowplow,” the statement reads.
Total CEO Christophe de Margerie died when a Falcon 50 business jet crashed on October 20 at Moscow’s Vnukovo-3 Airport. The incident happened when the aircraft, which was to fly to Paris, hit a snow removal vehicle when taking off. The three crew members also died in the crash. De Margerie was the only passenger on board.
On November 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on conferring the Order of Honor on Christophe de Margerie for his big contribution to the Russian-French relations.
