Native of Yeisk becomes defendant in case of private jet crash at Vnukovo Airport

Svetlana Krivsun, a native of the town of Yeisk of the Krasnodar Territory, has become one of the defendants in the criminal case of the private jet crash that occurred at the Moscow Vnukovo Airport on October 21. She is under house arrest and interrogated as a defendant.

At night of October 21, at the Vnukovo Airport, during take-off, a Falcon-50EX private jet collided with snow removal machine and burned. The private jet was to depart to Paris. As a result of the plane crash, three crew members and the only passenger Christophe de Margerie, President of the French oil company "Total", were killed.

On October 29, being under house arrest, air traffic controller-trainee Svetlana Krivsun, was charged with an offense under Part 3 of Article 263 (violation of safety rules and operation of aircraft, resulting in deaths of two or more persons) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Investigators believe that the air traffic controller-trainee failed to exercise proper visual control" of the take-off runway and "failed to take measures to ensure take-off runway was left" by snow removal machines. At the court session, Svetlana Krivsun herself has explained that she is only a trainee and that she is not allowed to make any independent decisions, the "Interfax" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.