Vilnius: A cargo plane of DHL, a German company providing parcel and courier services, crashed on top of a house near the capital of Lithuania on Monday morning. One person died in this incident. The chief of Lithuania's police said the plane crashed shortly before landing at Vilnius Airport. “The plane fell a few kilometers from the airport,” Police Commissioner General Renatas Pojela said. After the crash the plane slid for a few hundred metres. Part of the plane hit a residential house. In the incident, residential structures around the house caught fire, the house itself was damaged, but we were successful in evacuating the people.
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Lithuania's public broadcaster LRT quoted an emergency official as saying that two people were taken to hospital after the crash and one was later declared dead. LRT said the plane had crashed near a two-storey house near the airport.
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Lithuania's airport authority identified the plane as “a DHL cargo plane flying from Leipzig, Germany to Vilnius Airport.” Flight monitoring data obtained from Flightradar24 was analyzed by The Associated Press (AP). Did. Analysis revealed that the aircraft veered north of the airport before landing on the runway and crashed 1.5 kilometers short of the runway. Officials did not immediately release the cause of the accident. The accident occurred before 5:30 am local time.
The plane was 31 years old
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