Summary
A Russian snowplow driver Thursday pleaded guilty to causing the fatal 2014 Moscow airport jet crash that killed the head of French oil giant Total.
Three air traffic controllers who worked that night at the airport pleaded not guilty on the same charges, which carry up to seven years in jail.
Dunayev, the engineer who led the team, "recognizes that he did not supervise the work of his colleagues," his lawyer Leonid Kurakin told journalists at the court.
Investigators said the air traffic controllers failed to warn the pilots that the snowplow had moved on to the runway even though they had time to do so.
The airport and the French company that operated the plane, Unijet, jointly filed claims for damages to compensate for their destroyed property totaling 15.2 million rubles ($229,000), Kurakin told TASS.
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