Fatal aviation accidents involving prominent businessmen

CEO of the French oil corporation Total, Christophe de Margerie was killed in Falcon 50 business jet crash at Vnukovo airport in Moscow on October 20

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Christophe de Margerie, France’s oil giant Total CEO died shortly before midnight Moscow time on October 20 when the Falcon jet carrying him collided with a snowplow during takeoff. Photo: Christophe de Margerie in Davos, Switzerland, 26 January 2011

Three crewmembers, all of them French citizens, also perished in the crash

Russian investigators accused senior airport officials of criminal negligence over a fatal accident

Richard Rockefeller, 64-year-old great grandson of American business magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Sr died in a crash on June 13, 2014. He was an experienced pilot, but his Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop plane went down after hitting trees

Lewis Katz and six other people died in the crash on 31 May 2014. Photo: Wreckage lies at the scene, June 2, 2014, in Bedford, Massachusetts, where a plane plunged down an embankment and erupted in flames during a takeoff attempt

72-year-old American businessman Lewis Katz was a co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and some other newspapers

On 14 March 2014 the AgustaWestland AW139 came down in a field near the village of Gillingham

Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, one of the richest men in Northern Ireland was among four people who have died in a helicopter crash near the east coast of England

President from the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (BCIE), Nicaraguan Harry Brautigam died when TACA airlines airplane landed out of the landing strip at the airport of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 30 May 2008

On September 3, 2007 James Fossett, an American businessman and a record-setting aviator and adventurer was reported missing after the plane he was flying over the Great Basin Desert in Nevada failed to return

Over a year after the millionaire pilot vanished on a solo flight wrecked airplane belonging to Steve Fossett were found in California's rugged Sierra Nevada, USA. The aircraft appeared to have hit the mountainside head-on

Christophe de Margerie, France’s oil giant Total CEO died shortly before midnight Moscow time on October 20 when the Falcon jet carrying him collided with a snowplow during takeoff. Three crewmembers, all of them French citizens, also died in the crash. This one and other fatal aviation accidents involving prominent businessmen in photo gallery by TASS.