DHL cargo plane crashes near Lithuania airport | Lithuania

A DHL cargo plane has crashed into a house as it approached to land at Lithuania’s Vilnius airport, killing one person and injuring three others on the plane, officials said.

The plane was operated by Swiftair on behalf of DHL and had taken off from Leipzig, Germany, before the plane crashed around 03:30 GMT, a spokesman for the national crisis management center said.

All the people in the house survived, he added.

The spokesman said there was no indication that an explosion preceded the crash. “At the moment we have no data that there was an explosion,” he said.

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

The police told a press conference that 12 people had been evacuated from the house that was hit by the plane.

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

The head of the National Crisis Management Center said the cause of the crash was being investigated.

Firefighters were seen at 05:30 GMT pouring water on a smoking building 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north of the airport’s runway. A large police and ambulance presence was seen nearby and major streets nearby were cordoned off.

The flight had departed from Leipzig at 02.08 GMT, Flightradar24 said on X.

Germany is investigating several fires caused by incendiary devices hidden inside packages at a warehouse in Leipzig earlier this year, the country’s attorney general said in October.

British counter-terrorism police said shortly afterwards that they were investigating a warehouse fire in July, caused by a package that caught fire, and were in contact with other European law enforcement agencies to see if there was a link with similar incidents elsewhere.