One dead, three injured in Lithuania cargo plane crash

via X

A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house as it approached for landing at Lithuania’s Vilnius airport early on Monday, killing one person and injuring three others on the aircraft, officials said.

The flight was operated by SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL and had taken off from Leipzig, Germany before the plane crashed around 0330 GMT, a spokesperson for the governmental National Crisis Management Centre said.

An airport spokesperson said the plane was a Boeing 737-400.

All of the people in the house survived, he added.

Police told a press conference 12 people had been evacuated from the house hit by the plane.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground and slid at least 100 metres before crashing into the building.

The head of national crisis management centre said the cause of the crash was being investigated.

Firefighters were seen at 0530 GMT pouring water onto a smoking building some 1.3 km north of the airport runway in the Lithuanian capital.

A large police and ambulance presence was seen nearby and several nearby major streets were cordoned off.

The flight had departed from Leipzig at 0208 GMT, Flightradar24 said on the X social media platform.

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