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Recent Colorado College grad killed in Moscow airplane fire

Jeremy Brooks was in Russia to work as a fishing guide.

KUSA - An American who had just recently graduated from college in Colorado died during a plane's emergency landing in Moscow.

Jeremy Brooks was one of 41 people killed in a fiery airplane accident at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday. 

Brooks was a New Mexico native who graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs.

His boss said he had just arrived in Russia to start a job as a fishing guide.

The Sukhoi SSJ100 operated by national airline Aeroflot had 73 passengers and five crew members on board when it touched down and sped down a runway spewing huge flames and black smoke.

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The airport said in a statement that the plane, which had taken off from Sheremetyevo Airport for the northern city of Murmansk, turned back for unspecified technical reasons and made a hard landing that started the fire. 

Video broadcast later on Russian television showed flames bursting from the jetliner's underside as it lands and then bounces. The plane apparently did not have time to jettison fuel before the emergency landing, news reports said.

"Investigators soon will begin interviewing victims, eyewitnesses, airport staff and the airline carrier, as well as other persons responsible for the operation of the aircraft," Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.

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