Christophe de Margerie, Chief Executive of French energy major Total was killed tonight along with three crew members in a plane crash at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. The highly regarded executive was taking off to Paris aboard a Falcon 50 business jet when, according to a statement by Total, it collided with a snow removal machine.
The incident occurred at approximately 10PM Paris time on 20 October.
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