A DHL cargo plane crashed into a residential area near the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, killing one person.Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT
reported that the aircraft crashed into a two-story house near Vilnius International Airport at around 5:30 a.m. local time on the 25th.
added that two people were taken to the hospital in the accident, one of whom died.Lithuanian airport authorities
said the crashed aircraft was a Boeing 737 DHL cargo plane from Leipzig, Germany.Flightradar24 flight tracking data for
Flightradar24 shows the aircraft circled north of the airport and crashed 1.5km from the runway while waiting to land.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, and at the time of the accident, the airport's weather was below zero, cloudy before sunrise, and the wind was blowing at about 30 kilometers per hour.
DHL Group, based in Bonn, Germany, has yet to comment on the accident.
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