A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house early this morning while approaching the airport in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, killing one person and injuring three others on board, officials said, according to Reuters.
The flight was operated by SVIFT airlines on behalf of DHL, and the plane took off from Leipzig, Germany, before crashing at around 4:30 a.m. CET, a spokesman for the government's National Crisis Management Center said.
All the people in the house survived, he added.
An airport spokesman said the plane was a Boeing 737-400 BA.N.
The police announced at the press conference that 12 people were evacuated from the house where the plane fell.
Emergency services said the plane hit the ground and slid at least 100 meters before crashing into a building. The head of the national crisis management center said that the cause of the accident was being investigated.
There is still no evidence to suggest there was an explosion before the plane crashed, a spokesman for the Lithuanian government's National Crisis Management Center told Reuters.
"At the moment we don't have any information that there was an explosion," he said.
Counterintelligence chief Darius Jauniskis told reporters: "We can't rule out the possibility of terrorism... But at this point we can't attribute or point the finger, because we don't have that kind of information."
Firefighters were seen at 6:30 a.m. pouring water on the smoke from the building, located about 1,3 kilometers north of the airport runway in the Lithuanian capital.
A large police and ambulance presence was observed nearby, and several nearby main streets were cordoned off.
The plane took off from Leipzig at 3:08 a.m. CET, Flightradar24, a real-time air traffic service, said on the X social network.
Germany is investigating several fires caused by incendiary devices hidden inside packages at a Leipzig warehouse earlier this year, the country's chief prosecutor said in October.
Britain's counter-terrorism police said shortly afterwards that they were investigating a warehouse fire in July, which was caused by a package that caught fire, and were liaising with other European law enforcement agencies to determine whether there was a link to similar incidents in other places.
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