A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came into land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport early on Monday (Nov 25), skidding into a house and killing one person on the aircraft.
The three other people onboard were injured but no one on the ground was hurt.
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00:00A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came into land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport early
00:07on Monday, skidding into a house and killing one person on the aircraft.
00:11The three other people on board were injured, but no one on the ground was hurt.
00:16The scheduled flight was operated by airline Swiftair on behalf of DHL and had taken off
00:22from Leipzig, Germany.
00:23A spokesperson for Lithuania's National Crisis Management Centre said the plane, a Boeing
00:29737-400, crashed while approaching the destination airport for landing.
00:35Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres
00:40before crashing into the building.
00:42Police and prosecutors are investigating the incident, but there was nothing to suggest
00:47an explosion preceded the crash.
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