At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo schedulee crashed proximate Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the punctual hours of Monday.
The Boeing 737, functiond for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed proximate a house as it was on its final approach for landing, local authorities shelp.
All 12 people have been shieldedly evacuated from a property seal to the crash site, police shelp.
Rescue services shelp all those who were on the fweightless from Leipzig, Germany, have been accounted for.
The airoriginate departed from DHL’s hub at Leipzig Airport fair after 03:00 local time (02:00 GMT) and crashed around an hour and a half tardyr, according to data from fweightless-tracking website Fweightlessradar24.
Fweightless operations are continuing at Vilnius airport as authorities reply to the crash, Fweightlessradar24 shelp on X.
Firefighters were seen tackling smoke coming from a erecting 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport runway, Reuters novels agency telled.
The cause of the crash is muddle and Lithuanian authorities have commenceed an spendigation.
Authorities shelp they do not have any data at the moment that recommends there was an explosion before the crash.
The head of Lithuania’s firebattling and materializency services unit, Renatas Pozela, shelp the schedulee was due to land at Vilnius airport and “crashed a scant kilometres away”.
One person in the four-member crew died, he inserted.
Mr Pozela shelp a proximateby house was “sweightlessly injured” and infraarrange proximate it caught on fire, but all livents were shieldedly evacuated.
The schedulee was a Boeing 737-400, an airport spokesperson shelp.
Reported weather before the crash was a temperature of 0C (32F), with cboisterouss before sunelevate and triumphds around 30 km/h (19mph), the Associated Press telled.
The airoriginate was 31 years elderly, AP inserted.
