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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on October 22, 2014, 01:42:16 PM
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KeepItReal (5,915 posts)
CEO Of Oil Giant Total Reportedly Killed In Moscow Plane Crash
Source: Radio Free Europe
Russian media reported October 21, citing aviation and law enforcement sources, that the CEO of French oil company Total, Christophe de Margerie, has died after a private jet crashed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.
The TASS news agency cited an aviation source as saying, "There was one passenger registered on the plane, French citizen Christophe de Margerie. The three crew members were also French citizens. They all died."
According to TASS, during the takeoff of the Falcon-50 jet collided with a snow removal machine in thick fog. The plane was headed for France.
Read more: http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-total/26647194.html
BBC Coverage here: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29699733
Small plane, executive, oil. Sounds ripe for some DU woofing, and valerief doesn't disappoint:
valerief (42,227 posts)
2. Now, if it had been the CEO of a solar energy company, I'd feel really bad. nt
Another day, another bloodthirsty a-hole DUmmy.
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French aircrew and Russian ATC and ground ops. You can't get much more dangerous than that.
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valerief (42,227 posts)
2. Now, if it had been the CEO of a solar energy company, I'd feel really bad. nt
you mean someone like brian harrison who stole million of $$$ from the U.S. Taxpayer while he was the CEO of solyndra?
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French aircrew and Russian ATC and ground ops. You can't get much more dangerous than that.
:fuelfire:
It could be, say, Central African . . . :runaway:
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I've seen my share of Third World airstrips...your own AC is usually the only thing capable of actually moving on the entire ramp, or in the approach/departure airspace around it, so no matter how bad the ATC is, it's fairly hard to hit anything else at one of them.
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