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

We cannot rule out the case of terrorism. We have warned that such things are possible, we see an increasingly aggressive Russia... but we cannot make any attributions or point fingers yet,

Jauniskis said

We know who the source of these operations is. It is Russian military intelligence,

Kestutis Budrys told Ziniu radio

It is premature to associate it with anything or to make any attributions,

State Security Department chief Darius Jauniskis told reporters

Over the past several months, as part of a multi-layered security approach, TSA worked with industry partners to put additional security measures for U.S. aircraft operators and foreign air carriers regarding certain cargo shipments bound for the United States, in line with the 2021 TSA Air Cargo Security Roadmap,

the TSA's statement noted at the time

At the moment we don’t have any data that there was an explosion,

he said

It turned out that a cargo plane had crashed and a residential house caught fire. According to initial data, firefighters rescued three victims from the wreckage of the plane and extracted one dead person."

The Department of Fire Protection and Rescue said in a statement

According to preliminary data, a cargo aircraft carrying 4 people crashed near the Vilnius International airport at 5.30 AM local time. 1 person was declared dead, 3 injured."

Lithuania's national police force told NBC News in an emailed statement

This is one of the versions of the crash that will be investigated and checked. There is a lot of work to be done. Gathering evidence may take all week, there will be no quick answers,

Paulauskas said

Today we will urgently declare a state of emergency in the area to ensure that the consequences of the incident are dealt with quickly — the area is cleaned up, hazardous materials are collected,

Benkunskas wrote in a Facebook post

It fell a few kilometers before the airport, it just skidded for a few hundred meters, its debris somewhat caught a residential house,

said police commissioner-general, Renatas Požėla

Residential infrastructure around the house was on fire, and the house was slightly damaged, but we managed to evacuate people,

he added, per the AP

We can confirm that today at around 4:30 am CET an aircraft of Swift Air, a third-party carrier operating under contract for DHL, which was on its way from LEJ Airport (Leipzig, Germany) to VNO Airport (Vilnius, Lithuania), made a forced landing about one kilometer from VNO Airport,

a DHL spokesperson told BI

There was a total of four people on board. The status of the crew is still being clarified,

the spokesperson said, ... adding that

The plane was due to land at Vilnius airport and crashed a few kilometres away,

Renatas Pozela, the head of the firefighting and emergency services unit said, adding

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.

An airport spokesperson said