CNN. Snowplow driver held in Moscow over Total plane crash

A snowplow driver who’s been blamed by Russian authorities for a plane crash that killed the chief executive of the oil company Total has been sent to pretrial detention, his lawyer said Thursday. Snowplow driver Vladimir Martynenko has denied claims by Russian officials that he was drunk at the time of the crash Monday at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport. Total CEO Christophe de Margerie and three others were killed after his plane hit the snowplow during takeoff and crashed.