Mac released the reasons for the crash of Falcon in Vnukovo

The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) completed an investigation into the causes of the Falcon aircraft disaster in Vnukovo, in which the head of Total, Christophe de Margerie, died. Conclusions about the causes of the crash are published on the Mac website.

As indicated in the MAC, “most likely, the disaster has become the result of a combination” 16 factors. This is also the “lack of proper control by the head of the change in the airfield service, in the body of which alcohol was detected”; Ineffective work with the system of monitoring the flight field in Vnukovo, to which insufficiently trained specialists were allowed.

Another factor in the MAC was called "the loss of a snowplower driver, in the body of which alcohol was found, orientation when performing work on a flight field."

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They also indicated that the Falcon crew did not stop the flight after the aircraft commander announced the “car that crosses the road”.

“The absence of a decision to stop taking off was probably caused by a non-optimal psycho-emotional state of the crew (for a long time to wait for the departure at an unfamiliar airport and the desire to fly home as soon as possible), which could make it difficult to assess the real level of danger when the snow-pipe is detected after the start of the run,” the committee said.

At the end of July, the driver of the snowplifier Vladimir Martynenko and the Vnukovo Airfield Service Vladimir Ledenov pleaded guilty to the Falcon crash. The dispatcher Alexander Kruglov, the flight manager of the Vnukovo Air Movement Center Roman Dunaev and the steering manager Nadezhda Arkhipova are also defendants in the case. They did not admit their guilt.

The snow removal machine controlled by Martynenko collided with the Falcon aircraft on the night of October 21, 2014. The plane caught fire, de Margeri and three crew members died.