One crew member was killed after a cargo plane crashed early Monday on the outskirts of Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, skidded into a house and burst into flames.

The operator of Vilnius Airport in Lithuania closed the runway for an hour on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the crash of a DHL cargo plane the previous day. Police used drones to film the area where the plane crashed.

Most of the remaining wreckage from a cargo aircraft operated by global courier DHL that crashed in Vilnius is now being cleared from the site.

A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house as it approached for landing at Lithuania’s Vilnius airport early on Monday, killing one person and injuring three others on the aircraft, officials said. The flight was operated by SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL and had taken off from Leipzig,

An aircraft flying from Leipzig on behalf of the DHL logistics firm crashed near the Vilnius airport, killing at least one person and wounding three, the BNS news agency reported, citing an emergency services spokeswoman.

Lithuanian police confirm one person died in the crash, with the three other people on board the plane sustaining injuries.

A cargo plane accident near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday resulted in at least one fatality and three injuries.

Lithuania has found no sign that the crash on Monday of a DHL cargo plane was caused by sabotage, and believes technical issues were a more likely explanation, officials said on Wednesday. The aircraft crashed as it came in to land at Vilnius airport on Monday,

Lithuania is leaning towards a technical cause for the crash on Monday of a DHL cargo plane as it came in to land at Vilnius airport, the country's National Crisis Management Center said on Wednesday.