The USA Nationwide Transportation Security Board is main a group of board investigators that will 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 instructed reporters: “We can not reject the potential for terrorism … However in the meanwhile we won’t make attributions or level fingers, as a result of we do not have such info.”
A senior European intelligence official added that nothing was being dominated out.
In an announcement, DHL stated the aircraft, which was arriving from Leipzig, “made a pressured 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 look at the black bins 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 proper wing of the aircraft turned down earlier than it crashed, as if it was making an attempt to show. There was one thing shiny popping out of the proper aspect of the aircraft, like sparks or a flame, earlier than it hit the bottom,” stated Ciupailaite.
She shared a video with Reuters shot by her automobile’s windshield, which she stated was filmed shortly after the crash, exhibiting an enormous fireplace past a variety of bushes.
“Oh my God,” she was heard crying out within the video.
Swiftair stated the aircraft went down in a residential space close to Vilnius airport, and that it had arrange a name centre to help the kin of these affected.
