Moscow - Driver Vladimir Martynenko whose snowplow collided with a Falcon business jet at the Vnukovo airport, causing its crash killing four people, including Total CEO Christophe de Margerie, has admitted in court that he is related to the crash.
“I feel and know that I won’t escape it. I am collaborating with the investigation. I feel that I am related to this incident. I’m having a really hard time now,” Martynenko said at a hearing on Oct. 23 at Moscow’s Basmanny Court, which is supposed to decide what pretrial restriction measure should be applied to him.
Martynenko said he was not planning to threaten witnesses, did not have a foreign travel passport and was not going to hide.
An investigator asked the court to take Martynenko into custody until Dec. 21.
