MOSCOW: The chief executive officer (CEO) of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, died in a plane crash at a Moscow airport late on Monday when the private jet he was using struck a snowplough on takeoff.

Russian investigators said on Tuesday the driver of the snow-clearing machine was drunk and that his actions, along with "an error by air traffic controllers," appeared to be to blame for the crash.

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