DHL Cargo Plane Crashes Into House In Vilnius Airport Landing | Lithuania

A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came in to land at Lithuania’s Vilnius airport early on Monday (November 25), skidding into a house and killing one person on the aircraft.The three other people onboard were injured but no one on the ground was hurt, officials said.The scheduled flight was operated by airline Swiftair on behalf of DHL and had taken off from Leipzig, Germany.It crashed around 0330 GMT while approaching the destination airport for landing, a spokesperson for Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center said.Police and prosecutors are investigating the incident but there was nothing to suggest an explosion preceded the crash, the spokesperson said.An airport spokesperson said the plane was a Boeing 737-400.Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres (110 yards) before crashing into the building.A Lithuanian rescue services spokesperson said one person onboard was killed and three injured.Police told a press conference 12 people had been evacuated from the house hit by the plane. There were no casualties on the ground. n18oc_world n18oc_crux