The head of the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania, Laurinas Kaschunas, said that the plane crash in Vilnius could be an act of sabotage. An international commission was established to investigate the causes of the natural disaster.
A SWIFT transport plane working for DHL crashed on Monday in Vilnius, next to the airport. The car hit the ground and fell about 100 meters along with it. It broke into pieces and its pieces hit the house. Nothing happened to the residents. One of the four crew members died.
The Crisis Management Center has launched an investigation to explain the cause of the disaster. On Wednesday, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania, Laurinas Kaschuunas, announced the preliminary results of the analysis. – There is no indication that Monday's crash of a cargo plane in Vilnius could be an act of sabotage, he said.
– The preliminary visual analysis showed that the plane that landed in Vilnius did not have any external damage. A detailed analysis of the black boxes will allow us to determine more precisely what could be happening inside the car, Kaschinas told reporters after a meeting of the parliamentary national security and defense committee.
He also reported that initial interviews with the surviving pilots indicated that there were no signs of distress, smoke or chaos in the plane. At the same time, he emphasized that the investigators do not rule out anything, but at the moment there is no reason to believe that the plane crash was sabotage.
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– Before trying to connect this event with the activities of enemy states, irrefutable evidence is needed. Otherwise, we risk that the aggressor will achieve his goal twice, said the Lithuanian minister.
“Irrefutable evidence is necessary”
An international commission was established to investigate the causes of the natural disaster. According to the head of the National Crisis Management Center Vilmantas Vitkauskas, it consists of investigators from Lithuania, Germany, Spain and the USA. Experts examine the crash site, then the wreckage is transported to the hangar, where it is examined and compared with the information obtained from the black boxes.
On Tuesday, the Lithuanian government announced that black boxes have already been recovered from the plane crash.
A courier company plane crashed in Vilnius. The situation of the natural disaster is being investigated Justina Zuber/Fakty o Świecie TVN24 BiS
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