A plane crash near Moscow Vnukovo Airport killed five people Saturday. The crash was captured by a dashboard camera in one of the cars on the highway.

A plane crash near Moscow Vnukovo Airport killed five people Saturday. The crash was captured by a dashboard camera in one of the cars on the highway, RT news website reported.

The footage of the actual plane crash was recorded by a dash-cam in one of the cars driving by appeared online overnight. The 30-second video shows the plane crashing into a road safety barrier and its debris hitting the car carrying the camera is placed and another car passing by.

The highway was not busy at the time of the crash so drivers managed to avoid a major accident. Yet the incident caused a massive traffic jam, hampering rescue teams and ambulances rushing to the scene, witnesses say.

Drivers who happened to be near the scene of the crash were trying to rescue those on board injured.

The only people drivers could not help were the pilots, who were trapped in the cockpit. Witnesses tried to break the glass to reach to them, but it was too thick, so they had to wait for rescuers to arrive.

The Tu-204 aircraft belonging to Russian low-cost Red Wings airline performed a hard-landing at Vnukovo Airport, southwest of Moscow, on Saturday evening. The plane, flying from the Czech Republic, was practically empty, with only crew of eight on board. Four have died and the other four were critically injured in the crash.

One flight attendant succumbed to her injuries on Sunday bringing death toll from the crash to five. As of Sunday the three survivors were in intensive care in Moscow hospitals.

The four killed on Saturday in the crash were the first pilot, second pilot, flight engineer and a flight attendant. The official procedure of identification took place on Sunday.

It was announced that the families of those died in the accident will be paid 1 million rubles in compensation (about US$33000) as ordered by Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.