How to break in a plane crash

Interrupted Flight: how to break in a plane crash businessmen and politicians

In the early hours of Tuesday October 21 at Vnukovo airport in a plane crash killed CEO of the French oil company Total Christophe de Margerie, a private jet which collided during acceleration with snow machines and caught fire. In 2014, it was not the first plane crash that killed the representatives of big business. In general, the major cause of death of entrepreneurs and politicians are often bad weather conditions. But sometimes - and the machinations of rivals.

How to break in a plane crash businessmen and government officials - in this gallery.





Enrico Mattei, head of the Italian oil company ENI
Founder and leader of the Italian energy corporation Eni Enrico Mattei was a very popular figure in post-war Italy. He was called a typical Italian "selfmeydmenom." In World War II, participated in the movement "Resistance", where "partisans" with Luigi Longo, the future head of the Italian Communist Party, which later helped him to enter into contracts with the Soviet Union.
After the war, headed by Mattei state energy company Agip, created during the time of Mussolini's regime, which was engaged in the search for gas and methane deposits in northern Italy. From that moment began the history of confrontation Mattei, who understood the need for energy independence of Italy, with the Anglo-American energy giant. Mattei was looking for oil and methane in Italy, pressured the Italian government to prevent the country's dependence on foreign energy companies. In 1953, on his initiative was created by a consortium of state-owned energy Eni. The company entered into foreign markets, began to buy oil in Africa and the Middle East, where he offered to exporters record profits from the sale - up to 75% instead of the traditional 50%. Mattei was the author of the term "seven sisters", symbolizing the seven major Anglo-American energy companies to compete with Eni. Italian entrepreneur was an active supporter of rapprochement with the Soviet Union and Italy to support the process.
October 27, 1962 the plane on which Mattei returned from Sicily to Milan, crashed near the town Bascapè. First, this crash was seen as a normal accident. But in 1972 saw the release of Francesco Rosi "The Mattei Affair", during the filming of which mysteriously disappeared journalist and consultant Mauro De Mauro movie - it was his director of the film asked to conduct an independent investigation into the death of Mattei. Francesco Rosi himself while working on the film also received numerous threats.
In the 90 years prosecutors of Pavia conducted an investigation and found that on board the aircraft Mattei was a charge of TNT, which exploded at the moment when the plane came in to land. Cooperate with the investigation by representatives of the Italian Mafia shared information that the operation carried out on behalf of the Sicilian mafia crime bosses from the US. Allegations that in the past might be CIA or those "seven sisters". At Mattei was a lot of enemies. French intelligence believed Mattei ally Algerian National Liberation Front, the Sicilian Mafia also did not like the project for the development of the island, where Eni discovered oil. In addition, Mattei suspected its own Vice - Eugenio Chefisa - in close proximity to Washington and the CIA.

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