Accidents
Airport Staff, ATC, Pilots Implicated in Fatal Falcon Crash
The jet lifted off the runway at about 134 knots, but a moment later the right wing and right landing gear hit the snowplow before the airplane crashed.

The fatal crash of a French-registered Dassault Falcon 50EX that hit a snowplow during takeoff from Moscow Vnukovo International Airport on Oct. 20, 2014, was caused by a combination of factors that implicate several airport workers, air traffic controllers and the trijet’s pilots, according to a final report from Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC). Criminal charges have been levied against seven controllers and airport workers, including the snowplow driver, who was believed to have been intoxicated at the time of the collision.


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