MOSCOW, October 31 (RIA Novosti) – A flight supervisor from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where the private jet of Total CEO Christophe de Margerie went down, has been charged in connection with the plane crash, the Russian Investigative Committee said Friday.
"[Roman] Dunaev has been questioned as an accused. He is currently under house arrest," Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
The plane crashed last Monday night after it hit a snowplow during takeoff at Vnukovo Airport. De Margerie and three crew members, also French citizens, died in the crash.
The airport's general director and his deputy resigned three days after the tragic incident, while some managerial staff have been dismissed.
It was revealed later that the snowplow driver, Vladimir Martynenko, had been intoxicated and drove onto the runway without permission.
Russia's Investigative Committee, in charge of the probe, implicated four other people in the crash, including a senior airport engineer, a flight supervisor, an air traffic controller and his trainee.
Dunaev is the fourth person to be charged, pending the indictment for the snowplow driver. The investigative authority said senior airport engineer Vladimir Ledenev, the man responsible for snow removal, was indicted earlier in the day.
Vnukovo air traffic controller Alexander Kruglov was charged Thursday after he was put under house arrest on suspicion that he could hamper the probe by destroying evidence, threatening witnesses, or colluding with his coworkers.
Air traffic control trainee Svetlana Krivsun was charged two days ago.
