DHL cargo plane crash: Aircraft comes down in Lithuania hits house near airport in Vilnius killing one

A DHL cargo plane has crashed into a location adjacent the Lithuanian capital, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 person.

The caput of the country's constabulary said the level crashed soon earlier landing astatine Vilnius airdrome connected Monday morning.

Lithuanian nationalist broadcaster LRT, quoting an exigency official, said 2 radical had been taken to infirmary aft the crash successful Vilnius, and 1 was aboriginal pronounced dead.

LRT said the craft smashed into a two-storey location adjacent the airport.

Officials said that they could not regularisation retired terrorism, but said truthful acold determination was nary denotation that was the case.

Police Commissioner-General Renatas Pozela said: “It fell a fewer kilometres earlier the airport, it conscionable skidded for a fewer 100 metres. Its debris somewhat caught a residential house.

"Residential infrastructure astir the location was connected fire, and the location was somewhat damaged, but we managed to evacuate people."

The Lithuanian airdrome authorization identified the craft arsenic a "DHL cargo level flying from Leipzig, Germany, to Vilnius Airport."

It posted connected the societal level X that metropolis services including a occurrence motortruck were connected site.

Flight-tracking information from FlightRadar24 showed the craft made a crook to the northbound of the airport, lining up for landing, earlier crashing a small much than a mile abbreviated of the runway.

Authorities did not instantly connection a origin for the crash, which happened astatine 5.30am section clip (3.30am GMT).

The upwind astatine the airdrome was astir freezing temperature, with clouds earlier sunrise and winds of astir 18mph.

DHL Group, headquartered successful Bonn, Germany, has not instantly commented.

The DHL craft was operated by Swiftair, a Madrid-based contractor.

The Boeing 737 was 31 years old, which is considered by experts to beryllium an older airframe. However, that Is not antithetic for cargo flights.