Lithuania government is calling the plane fire an accident

A cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport on Monday morning. Now Lithuania’s Defense Minister says that it was probably an accident.

A plane crashed in Liatuen near Vilnius Airport at 5:30 am on Monday. The plane came from Leipzig, Germany, and was a cargo plane of transportation and logistics company DHL, Operated by Spanish Swiftair. There were four crew members on board, at least one of whom, a Spanish national, died. It is being told that another crew member has been seriously injured.

Speculation continued throughout the day whether the crash could be a terrorist attack, but Lithuania’s Defense Minister, Laurinas KasiunasSays it’s likely an accident. The head of the Latvian Civil Aviation Authority has also come to the same conclusion. Maris Gorodkovs.

“The last distance the plane traveled is in the recording,” explains Gorodkovs. “There you can see how the plane sinks and the pilot tries to turn the plane up to avoid a crash, which means the pilot is still It’s under control.”

The accident caused a major fire, but the fire should not have started in the cabin where the crew was seated. This is what a paramedic tells Lithuanian public utility company LRT.

Lithuanian police told LRT that their assessment was that the plane had attempted a normal landing. The police chief also told the network that he had spoken to a crew member, who said there should have been no signs of smoke or fire on the plane.

Lithuania has launched its own preliminary investigation into the incident, but now Spain and Germany are also sending researchers To understand what happened. The aircraft was a Boeing model and may have been manufactured in the United States. Therefore, the incident has also been reported to the US authorities.