Four people were killed when a passenger plane careered off the runway at Russia’s third-busiest airport, broke into pieces and caught fire.

DOZENS of flights were delayed and worries grew over public health yesterday as Moscow choked in the worst smog in living memory.

A CHOKING smog from raging wildfires shrouded Moscow, grounding flights, plunging the city’s iconic Red Square into a sea of dirty mist and stinging eyes and throats across the Russian capital.

An Airbus A-310 jet crashed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport today, Russian news agencies reported, saying there were apparently only crew members aboard.