Lithuania leans towards technical cause for DHL plane crash

VILNIUS (Reuters) – 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.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Rescuer walks past DHL cargo plane wreckage, at the crash site near Vilnius International Airport, Lithuania November 25, 2024. Lukas Balandis/BNS via REUTERS/File Photo

“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.

(Reporting Andrius Sytas, writing by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Stine Jacobsen and Terje Solsvik)

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