Cargo plane crashes into a house in Lithuania, killing at least 1

A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house Monday morning near Lithuania’s capital, killing at least one person, reports apnews.

The head of the country’s police said plane crashed shortly before landing at Vilnius airport.

“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 Požėla. “Residential infrastructure around the house was on fire, and the house was slightly damaged, but we managed to evacuate people.”

Lithuanian’s public broadcaster LRT, quoting an emergency official, said two people had been taken to the hospital after the crash, and one was later pronounced dead.

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.

Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24, analyzed by The Associated Press, showed the aircraft made a turn to the north of the airport, lining up for landing, before crashing a little more than 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) short of the runway._Agencies.