The head of the country's police said plane crashed shortly before landing at Vilnius airport.
A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house on Monday morning near Lithuania's capital, killing at least one person."It fell a few kilometers before the airport, it just skidded for a few hundred meters, its debris somewhat caught a residential house," said Police Commissioner-General Renatas Po**la. "Residential infrastructure around the house was on fire, and the house was slightly damaged, but we managed to evacuate people.
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The Lithuanian airport authority identified the aircraft as a DHL cargo plane arriving from Leipzig, Germany. It posted on the social platform X that city services including a fire truck were on site.
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