Three others were wounded in the incident as the plane slid for more than 100 meters when it attempted to land at an airport in Vilnius.
A cargo plane crashed on its approach to an airport in Vilnius and slid into a nearby house, killing at least one person who was aboard the aircraft, Lithuanian officials said on Monday.
Three other people on the plane were hurt and no one on the ground suffered any injury, they added.
A Lithuanian police spokesperson gave the nationality of the deceased as Spanish, and said the remaining members of the crew were one fellow Spaniard, a German, and a Lithuanian.
The cause of the accident is not yet known, but Renatas Požėla, chief of Lithuania’s Fire and Rescue Department, said that the plane skidded for a few hundred meters after hitting the ground, and photos showed smoke billowing into the sky from a damaged dwelling in a wooded area.
“Residential infrastructure around the house was on fire, and the house was slightly damaged, but we managed to evacuate people,” he said.
The flight was operated by airline Swiftair on behalf of DHL out of Leipzig, Germany, and the crash occurred around 5:30 a.m. local time.
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