Oil CEO in sad toll of famed plane crash victims PARIS (AP) — Christophe de Margerie, the charismatic CEO of Total SA whose silver handlebar earned him the nickname "Big Mustache," died late Monday when his private jet collided with a snowplow whose driver was drunk, according to Russian investigators. De Margerie, who expanded Total into one of the world's largest multinational companies, was among many renowned people whose lives have ended in a plane crash. A plane carrying the Polish president crashed in heavy fog on approach to the military airport in Smolensk, Russia, killing him and 95 others on board in 2010.