The black box flight recorders of an Aeroflot passenger jet that caught fire as it made a bumpy emergency landing at a Moscow airport have been recovered, Russian officials said Monday.

At least 41 people were killed when the Sukhoi Superjet 100 bounced along the tarmac before the rear of the plane suddenly burst into flames on Sunday night.

A 22-year-old American named Jeremy Brooks was among the 41 people who died on the flight, his boss from a local fishing shop in New Mexico told NBC News. The US State Department confirmed the death of an American in the crash.

Brooks had recently graduated from Colorado College and had taken a job as a fishing guide in Russia, shop owner Ivan Valdez told NBC News. The graduate was on his way to Murmansk where he planned to take a helicopter flight to a fishing camp.

This photo taken from a video distributed by Russian Investigative Committee shows the wreckage of the Aeroflot plane. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation / via AP

Russia's Investigative Committee said Monday that 33 passengers and four crew members escaped from the jet.

Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko was quoted by Russian news agencies on Monday as saying investigators seeking the cause of the disaster are looking into three main possibilities: insufficient pilot qualifications, equipment failure, and weather.

Video on Russian TV showed the plane's underside bursting into flames and spewing black smoke after making a hard landing at Sheremetyevo Airport.