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.It added that four people were taken to hospital in the
accident, one of them a flight attendant from Spain died.
CCTV footage around the airport released by local authorities shows that a plane approached the sky near an airport with dark early morning snow and exploded before being engulfed in a large blaze.Lithuanian airport authorities
said the crashed aircraft was a Boeing 737 DHL cargo plane from Leipzig, Germany.
Local police said, "After the crashed aircraft slipped hundreds of meters, debris collided with a house, and there was no damage to nearby residents other than the crew."
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.
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