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One crew member was killed after a cargo plane crashed early on Monday on the outskirts of Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, skidded into a house and burst into flames. Remarkably, three others on board the flight, including the pilot, survived the crash, as well as 12 members of the home who were safely evacuated, according to local authorities. The cargo plane flying from Leipzig, Germany, was due to land at Vilnius Airport when it crashed a few kilometers from the runway.
“The city’s special services are working at the scene and leading the rescue efforts, as well as crews from the Vilnius Airport Fire Service,” the airport spokesperson said. The spokesperson said due to “ongoing rescue work near Vilnius Airport”, departures for several aircraft had been delayed but that all scheduled flights were still taking off. The cargo plane that crashed was a Swift Air aircraft “operating under contract for DHL,” the logistics company said in a statement to CNN.
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