Snow plough driver in Total CEO plane crash was drunk - Russian investigators


  • World
  • Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The driver of a snow plough involved in a deadly plane crash that killed the chief executive of French oil major Total , Christophe de Margerie, in a Moscow airport late on Monday, was drunk, Russia's Investigative Committee said.

"At the moment, it is already established that the driver of the snow plough was in a condition of alcoholic intoxication," said Russia's Investigative Committee, an agency which answers to President Vladimir Putin.

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