America Nationwide Transportation Security Board is main a workforce of board investigators that can even embody Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration to journey to Lithuania to help with Lithuania’s Ministry of Justice Transport and Accident investigation of the crash.
Lithuanian counter-intelligence chief Darius Jauniskis informed reporters: “We can not reject the potential of terrorism … However for the time being we won’t make attributions or level fingers, as a result of we do not have such data.”
A senior European intelligence official added that nothing was being dominated out.
In a press release, DHL stated the airplane, which was arriving from Leipzig, “made a compelled touchdown” about 1km from VNO airport and that the reason for the crash was nonetheless unknown.
Lithuanian officers in the meantime stated there had been no indicators of something extraordinary from the pilots throughout radio contact with the plane.
“Within the recording of the dialog between the pilots and the tower, the pilots till the final second didn’t inform the tower of any extraordinary occasion,” stated Marius Baranauskas, head of the Lithuanian Nationwide Aviation Authority.
“We have to study the black containers to know what was taking place within the plane.”
Vilnius resident Kotryna Ciupailaite stated the plane flew low over her automobile as she was driving to work.
“The correct wing of the airplane turned down earlier than it crashed, as if it was making an attempt to show. There was one thing shiny popping out of the appropriate aspect of the airplane, like sparks or a flame, earlier than it hit the bottom,” stated Ciupailaite.
She shared a video with Reuters shot by means of her automobile’s windshield, which she stated was filmed shortly after the crash, displaying a giant hearth past a variety of timber.
“Oh my God,” she was heard crying out within the video.
Swiftair stated the airplane went down in a residential space close to Vilnius airport, and that it had arrange a name centre to help the family members of these affected.
