Carnage on the carriageway: Shocking video captures moment car is hit by plane wheel as Russian jet crashes and kills four on board

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Calm before the storm: The motorist would never have expected the terrible scene to happen

Footage has emerged of how close one motorist came to becoming another victim of the deadly Moscow plane crash today.
At least four Russians died when a passenger airliner overshot a runway and broke into pieces at a Moscow airport.
Officials said up to eight people were on board the Tupolev-204 - flight number RWZ9268 - as it rolled off the runway at Vnukovo airport and burst through a perimeter fence onto a highway.

Shocking The next minute second, a huge aeroplane wheel hurtles against the car in front along with other debris

Panic: Debris is strewn everywhere after the plane hit the highway

Safe? The driver weaves his way to a part of the road that has escaped the crash

Crash scene: The airliner broke up in pieces when it overshot the runway at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow

Wreckage: Rescuers work at the site where the low-cost Red Wings Russian passenger careered off the runway

Carnage: A truck removes the cabin of the Tu-204 jet from its crash site near the Vnukovo airport outside Moscow

Tough work: Workers sift through the mangled wreck attempting to piece together just what went wrong

A criminal case over possible flight safety violations has been launched, said official spokesman of Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said.
The preliminary cause of the accident is pilots’ error, he added.
Early reports say the jet, crashed at around 16:35 local time (12:35 GMT). after being forced to make a second landing attempt.
It rolled out from the runway into Kievskoye Highway, fell into three pieces and caught fire over 100 square meters.

Television image: The state channel Vesti shows the airliner with its nose apparently sheared off



source: dailymail