MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Representatives of the victims (the Unijet airline that the jet belonged to, as well as de Margerie’s family and the insurance company) will be present at the hearings of the Solntsevo District Court in Moscow, according to the source.
The prosecutor's office has brought charges against snowplow driver Vladimir Martynenko, whose vehicle hit against the plane during takeoff,provoking the crash, as well as senior shift engineer Vladimir Ledenev and air traffic controllers Roman Dunaev, Aleksander Kruglov and Nadezhda Arkhipova.
According to the Russian Investigative Committee, violations of runway rules and the negligence of air traffic controllers led to the accident.
Margerie spoke against western sanctions imposed on Russia over the situation in Ukraine in his last public address made before the Vnukovo crash.
