Lithuania leans towards technical cause for DHL plane crash
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Lithuania is leaning towards a technical cause for the crash on Monday of a DHL cargo plane as it came in to land at Vilnius airport, the country’s National Crisis Management Center said on Wednesday.
“We are leaning toward the technical version,” Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center told reporters in Vilnius.
“If we get additional data we might change our direction, but we don’t have it at the moment,” he added.
The black boxes of the DHL plane that crashed in Vilnius on Monday morning are planned to be sent to Germany for decryption, Laurynas Naujokaitis, head of the Justice Ministry’s Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation Division, has said.
“We are planning to send it to Germany, but we are still waiting for a response from the pre-trial investigation authorities because they assign officials to accompany the black boxes. Most likely, we plan to have some data by Friday,” Naujokaitis told BNS.
According to him, it should not be difficult for specialists to extract all the data from the black boxes, as they did not suffer major damage. He also stressed that the data will not be made public.
Lithuania has no laboratory suitable for their analysis of the black boxes, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC), said earlier on Wednesday.
