26 Nov, 2024 @ 19:08
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Watch: Fatal moment Boeing 737 crashes into a house and erupts into a fireball, killing Spanish pilot and injuring multiple others

A SPANISH pilot has died after the cargo plane he was flying crashed into a house.

The accident occured near Vilnius, Lithuania, at around 5.30am on Monday after the Boeing 737-476 departed from Leipzig in Germany.

In CCTV footage shared on X, the plane can be seen heading towards the ground at speed before disappearing out of view behind a row of warehouses.

Suddenly, a huge fireball erupts into the sky as the plane crashes into a two-storey home, reports El Español.

Incredibly, there were no reports of casualties on the ground.

“One crew member was found lifeless, and two others were rescued and taken to hospital,” said Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the country’s National Crisis Management Center (NKVC).

It later transpired that the crew member was in fact the pilot of the plane.

According to the mayor of Vilnius, Valdas Benkunskas, the plane flew through the house and crashed in the garden.

“The 12 residents of the house are safe and have been evacuated,” he added.

The Boeing 737-476 (SF), operated by a DHL contractor, was flying from Leipzig to Lithuania and officials said the cause of the accident was still being investigated.

Authorities in Spain have launched their own probe into the crash.

Vilnius airport saw some flights delayed in the immediate aftermath of the crash while a flight to Riga, Latvia, was cancelled.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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