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A DHL cargo plane crashes into residential building When it came in to land at Lithuania’s Vilnius airport early Monday, one person was killed and three others on the plane were wounded, authorities said.
The flight was operated by SWIFT on behalf of DHL and departed from a German city Leipzig before the plane crashed, according to a spokesman for the National Crisis Management Center. All people in the house survived.he added.
The pilot of the DHL cargo plane that crashed this Monday in Vilnius and died as a result of the disaster has Spanish citizenship, as does the crew member who was injured and hospitalized, it was reported EFE Head of Communications of the Lithuanian Police Ramunas Matonis.
Matonis said a German citizen and another Lithuanian were also injured and hospitalized after the incident. Boeing 737 crashed in a residential area near Vilnius airport, a few kilometers from the runway.
The causes of the accident are still being investigatedAccording to a police spokesman.
“The scene of the accident will be inspected to determine the cause of the crash. All circumstances are being clarified,” Commissioner General of Police Arunas Paulauskas emphasized at a press conference.
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Germany’s Federal Air Accident Investigation Office will support the Lithuanian investigation on site, a Federal Transport Ministry spokesman said later in Berlin.
“At this time, no statements can be made regarding cause of the accident“Said another representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, answering a question about the warning of the German authorities at the end of August about “unconventional incendiary devices” sent by unknown persons through the intelligence services. cargo transportation.
In security circles, the warning was linked to an incident at the DHL logistics center in Leipzig. In July, a parcel containing an incendiary device sent from the Baltic countries caught fire there.
Security circles do not rule out a connection to the increasing number of cases Russian sabotage in Germany.
However, a German official said the possible link had not been confirmed at this time.
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The event occurred at 05:31 local time, when Lithuanian Fire and Rescue Service (PAGD) received information that an explosion and fire occurred on Žirnu Street in Vilnius.
A cargo plane crashed and a two-story apartment building caught fire.
“The plane was landingbut he fell a few kilometers before the airport, flew several hundred meters and his remains hit a residential building,” PAGD director Renatas Pozela said at a press conference.
Paulauskas, in turn, indicated that the plane crashed into a warehouse next to the building. This densely populated area.
Firefighters pulled three victims from the wreckage of the plane and recovered one dead – a Spanish pilot.
Rescuers also evacuated 12 people from the building as the wreckage of the plane burned.
The fire was extinguished by firefighters who arrived in six fire engines and a water tanker.
Photo: Reuters
A rescue coordination center was established at the scene of the incident. Police officers and airport staff were also involved.
At 07:33 local time (05:33 GMT) the situation was finally considered under control. fire and their individual extinction was carried out.
Acting Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said that all necessary assistance will be provided to the capital municipality where the accident occurred.
“The most important thing is that although the incident occurred in Residential areaCasualties among the people living there were avoided,” Simonyte said in a commentary published on Monday.
“I ask you to trust in the ability of the authorities to conduct the investigation professionally and in the optimal time frame. Only these investigations will provide answers to questions about the real causes of the incident; speculation and conjecture will not help establish the truth,” he emphasized, LRT reports.
EFE
A Swiftair 737-400 cargo plane crashed on approach to Vilnius International Airport, Lithuania.
One pilot and one person on the ground were killed. The co-pilot and two others survived with unspecified injuries.
The plane, flown by contractor DHL Swiftair, was… pic.twitter.com/FUyexI9ObE
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