A twin-engine plane crashed in a semi-rural area of Jefferson County, about three miles northeast of Topeka, Friday afternoon.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, four people were killed in the accident, which was near the intersection of Kansas Highway 4 and 46th Street, southwest of Meriden.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Law enforcement officers protect the scene of a twin-engine plane crash between Topeka and Meriden, in Jefferson County, on Friday, April 21, 2011. Four people were reported to have died in the crash, which happened about noon.

photo by: Richard Gwin

A twin-engine plane crashed in a field near a wooded area of Jefferson County on Friday, April 22, 2011. The crash site is just off Kansas Highway 4 near 46th Street, northeast of Topeka. Four people died.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Wreckage rests in a field after a twin-engine plane crashed in a semi-rural area of Jefferson County, northeast of Topeka on Friday, April 22, 2011. Four people were reported to have died when the plane, which was registered to a Scott City company, crashed.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Kansas Highway Patrol troopers, along with Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies, work the scene of an airplane crash northeast of Topeka on Friday, April 22, 2011. Four people died in the accident, which happened about noon.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers along with area law enforcement work the scene of a airplane crash northeast of Topeka in Jefferson County on Friday, April 22, 2011. Four people on the plane died when the plane crashed, shortly after noon.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Law enforcement look at wreckage strewn around a field in Jefferson County after a twin-engine plane crashed on Friday, April 21, 2011. Four people died when the plane, registered to a Scott City company, crashed about noon.

photo by: Richard Gwin

A piece of wreckage from a plane crash rests in a field between Meriden and Topeka in Jefferson County on Friday, April 22, 2011.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Twisted, burned out wreckage was all that remained of a twin-engine airplane that crashed in a semi-rural area of Jefferson County, between Meriden and Topeka. Four people were reported to have died, the Federal Aviation Administration said.