At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania. The cause of the crash is still unclear but international leaders are calling for an investigation to examine whether the plane was sabotaged.
Shortly after 3am in Germany, a Boeing 737 departed from an international shipping hub at Leipzig Airport in Germany.
Logistics company DHL says the crash occurred as the plane was making an emergency landing near Vilnius airport in Lithuania."As I was going to work, I heard a very loud noise. At first I thought the sound was some kind of missile. I mean, because it was so loud, I slowed down the car. And just straight over my head, over my car... I am 170cm tall, so if you put me on my car – that would be the height that the plane flew over me.
"It is most likely either a technical failure or human error. But we are not aviation experts here to discuss this matter in such detail. The aircraft was simply landing and did not reach the runway. So, for now, those are the factual circumstances." "Together with our Lithuanian and Spanish partners, we must now seriously ask ourselves whether this was an accident or after last week, another hybrid incident. It shows what volatile times we're currently living in, even in the centre of Europe."
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