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November 25, 2024 | 06:52 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came into land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport early on Monday, November 25, 2024. The plane skidded into a house, killing one person and injuring three people onboard, but no one on the ground was hurt, officials said.
The scheduled flight was operated by airline Swiftair on behalf of DHL and had taken off from Leipzig, Germany. A spokesperson for Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center said the plane crashed around 0330 GMT while approaching the destination airport for landing.
Police and prosecutors are investigating the incident, but there was nothing to suggest an explosion preceded the crash, the spokesperson said.
"At the moment we don't have any data that there was an explosion," he said.
Counter-intelligence chief Darius Jauniskis told reporters: "We cannot reject the possibility of terrorism...But at the moment we can't make attributions or point fingers because we don’t have such information."
An airport spokesperson said the plane was a Boeing 737-400.
Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces, and slid over 100 meters before crashing into the building.
Police told a press conference that twelve people had been evacuated from the house hit by the plane. There were no casualties on the ground.
Firefighters poured water onto the smoking building some 1.3 kilometers north of the airport runway, and nearby streets were cordoned off.
DHL and Boeing have not yet replied to requests for comment.
The flight had departed from Leipzig at 0208 GMT, Flightradar24 said on X.
Germany is investigating several fires caused by incendiary devices hidden inside parcels at a warehouse in Leipzig earlier this year.
British counterterrorism police are investigating a warehouse fire in July, caused by a package catching alight, and liaising with other European law enforcement agencies to see if there was a connection with similar incidents elsewhere.
Security officials have told Reuters parcels that exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.
Leipzig Airport operator Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG declined to comment on the crash.
REUTERS
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