Posted on 10/20/2014 11:39:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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.
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Was he given clearance to go on the runway, and if so, is the ATC person who gave that clearance still alive as of now?
A little too much vodka, tovarisch! That can ruin any one’s day.
I’ve had a few too many before, but I’ve never thought my snow plow was a plane.
Trying desperately to tie this thread to photos of Russian female tennis stars, but can’t quite make the connection. Hopefully a FReeper will help me out.
At a time when there are international sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine, look at who is there trying to weasel... the French. Just like with Saddam Hussein.
This is immensely embarrassing for Putin.
Besides, before anyone operates Russian Equipment of any sort, he should, should I say, have a coupla snorts of vodka to avoid overreacting to excessive outside stimuli on the sensitive controls.
Yup. You're obviously familiar with air ops.
It wouldn't matter if the driver was drunk, stoned and on heroin simultaneously; if he was cleared at the same time as the aircraft, it's on the tower. Even if he wasn't cleared the tower should have had situational awareness.
In my experience, most airfield/runway snafus are caused by idiots in the tower. Then again, who knows how they do things in Russia.
I guess he should have watched that FAA video on runway incursions. I have to sit through that thing once a year.
In Russia, snow plow plows you.
As someone who hasn’t followed the story, in what way did the snowplow cause this death? Did it fail to clear snow from the runway, causing an accident? Did it plow into the plane? The article has no details.
Plow on the runway, plane hit the plow on takeoff run. Beyond that, details are missing.
The driver is alive in an intensive care dept of a Moscow hospital. Some sources say investigators have already had a talk with him. The driver's lawer denies his client was drunk during the accident.
A source of the RIA Novosti news agency said the traffic was being controlled by a trainee ground dispatcher. Anyway Russian aviation professionals say that trainees are supervised by their mentors at all times. "
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Keep at it!
It’s Russia. It would be news if he wasn’t drunk.
If this crash would have been captured on video, it would have been part of a Russian Car Crash compilation (aka ‘vodka video’).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wedUUtTKSM
If car crashing was an Olympic sport the Russians would take gold every time!
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