• Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings that was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport. Andrey Smirnov / AFP Photo
    Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings that was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport. Andrey Smirnov / AFP Photo
  • The plane's cockpit area was sheared off from the fuselage and the tail section partly torn away. Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP Photo
    The plane's cockpit area was sheared off from the fuselage and the tail section partly torn away. Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP Photo
  • The plane rolled off the runway into a snowy field and partly onto an adjacent highway, then disintegrated. No collisions with vehicles on the major, multilane highway were reported. Alexander Usoltsev / AP Photo
    The plane rolled off the runway into a snowy field and partly onto an adjacent highway, then disintegrated. No collisions with vehicles on the major, multilane highway were reported. Alexander Usoltsev / AP Photo
  • A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing yesterday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
    A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing yesterday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
  • Emergency officials said in a televised news conference that four people were killed and another four seriously injured. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
    Emergency officials said in a televised news conference that four people were killed and another four seriously injured. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters

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In pictures: Four killed in Russian plane crash

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