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DHL cargo plane crashes and skids into a house in Lithuania, killing Spanish crew member

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Published 11:19 PM

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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A DHL cargo plane has crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania’s capital and skidded into a nearby house, killing a Spanish crew member. The cause of the accident early Monday is under investigation. Photos showed smoke rising from a damaged structure in an area of barren trees, and Lithuania’s airport authority identified the aircraft as a DHL cargo plane arriving from Leipzig, Germany. Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24, analyzed by The Associated Press, showed the aircraft made a turn to the north of the airport, lining up for landing, before crashing a little more than 1.5 kilometers short of the runway.

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