Jet rolls off Moscow runway, splits apart

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By NBC News staff and wire reportsTwo people died when a passenger airliner rolled off the runway at Moscow's Vnukovo airport and broke apart on Saturday, the country's interior ministry said.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld  Ministry spokesman Gennady Bogachev announced the deaths on the government-run news channel Vesti.

"After a hard landing, the plane split into three pieces," Yelena Krylova, chief spokeswoman for the airport, added in televised comments.

The Tupolev 204 jet rolled more than 1,600 feet onto a highway before breaking up, Elena Smirnikh, deputy spokesperson for Russia's emergency ministry, told NBC News.


Vesti reported that there were 12 people on board the aircraft operated by Moscow-based Red Wings Airlines. It was traveling from the Czech Republic.

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[KingFemzee]

Plane breaking apart after landing is a bad one.

[Nifemi Donald]

That is crazily bad.
Can't even try to picture how it happened in my head