{"id":56904,"date":"2024-11-25T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=56904"},"modified":"2024-11-25T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T09:58:35","slug":"dhl-cargo-plane-crashes-in-lithuania-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/25\/dhl-cargo-plane-crashes-in-lithuania-one-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"DHL Cargo Plane Crashes in Lithuania, One Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A DHL cargo plane traveling from Germany to Lithuania crashed near Vilnius International Airport on Monday morning, November 25, 2024, resulting in the death of one crew member.<\/p>\n<p>The plane, which was scheduled to land at the Lithuanian capital&#8217;s airport, went down just a few kilometers from its destination.<\/p>\n<p>Renatas Pozela, head of Lithuania\u2019s firefighting and emergency services, confirmed the fatality among the four crew members on board.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby house was also set ablaze during the crash, though authorities reported that all occupants had been evacuated before the fire could spread.<\/p>\n<p>Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the National Crisis Management Centre, stated that while the cause of the crash is still unclear, emergency services are working diligently to investigate and secure the site.<\/p>\n<p>DHL spokesperson Ausra Rutkauskien confirmed that the ill-fated aircraft was operated by the logistics company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by this incident and are cooperating fully with local authorities as investigations proceed,\u201d Rutkauskien said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show emergency responders battling flames and inspecting the debris scattered around the crash site.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are now focusing on uncovering the cause of the crash, with preliminary assessments ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah A DHL cargo plane traveling from Germany to Lithuania crashed near Vilnius International Airport on Monday morning, November 25, 2024, resulting in the death of one crew member. The plane, which was scheduled to land at the Lithuanian capital&#8217;s airport, went down just a few kilometers from its destination. Renatas Pozela, head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":56905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56906,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56904\/revisions\/56906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}