A DHL cargo flight operated by a Swiftair Boeing 737-400F has crashed while attempting to land in Vilnius.
Monday, November 25 2024, a DHL cargo flight has crashed into a neighborhood close to Vilnius Airport.
A DHL cargo flight crashed near Lithuania’s Vilnius airport on Monday at about 0330 GMT, killing one person and injuring two others.
“Two have been taken to hospital, and one has been declared dead. These are the people who were on the plane, according to preliminary information,” Saulius Raševskis from the Lithuanian rescue service told LRT.
The Boeing 737-476F (registration EC-MFE), operated by SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL, was flying from Leipzig Germany. The aircraft fell on a house, a spokesperson for the governmental National Crisis Management Center said.
All of the people in the house survived, he added.
Firefighters were seen at 05:30 GMT pouring water onto smoke from a building some 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport runway in the Lithuanian capital.
A large police and ambulance presence was seen nearby and several nearby major streets were cordoned off.
