The US Nationwide Transportation Security Board is main a group of board investigators that may also 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’t reject the opportunity of terrorism … However in the mean time 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 aircraft, 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 look at the black packing containers to know what was occurring within the plane.”
Vilnius resident Kotryna Ciupailaite stated the plane flew low over her automobile as she was driving to work.
“The best 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 fitting 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 car’s windshield, which she stated was filmed shortly after the crash, exhibiting a giant hearth 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 kinfolk of these affected.