The black boxes of the plane that crashed in Vilnius will be taken abroad for analysis because there is no laboratory in Lithuania that can do so, said Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC).
"The first task is to retrieve them from the scene of the accident, then protect them from any external damage so they can be safely transported to the laboratories. Lithuania, of course, does not have such a laboratory and I think the commission will decide to which country they will be transported," Vitkauskas said in an interview with LRT RADIO on Wednesday.
According to him, it will most likely be "our European ally".
According to the head of the NKVC, the boxes are currently being prepared for transport to the laboratory and the investigation process will be overseen by Laurynas Naujokaitis, head of the Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Division of the Ministry of Justice.
Flight data and call records from the cockpit (black box) of the DHL cargo plane that crashed on Monday were found and recovered from the wreckage on Tuesday.
According to the Justice Department, a security investigation team has begun organizing the decryption of the black box data.
According to the agency. Reuters Lithuania has found no evidence that sabotage caused the crash and considers technical problems to be the more likely explanation. "With everything we have and everything we know, there's no indication of sabotage," Lithuanian Defence Minister told reporters on Wednesday Laurynas Kasciunas.
A visual analysis of the crash showed that there was no external interference with the aircraft during landing, while surviving crew members said there was no chaos or fear, smoke or smell inside the aircraft before the crash, the minister added.
Vitkauskas also told Reuters that investigators were leaning towards a technical cause of the incident: "If we get more data, we can change course, but we don't have it at the moment," told reporters, adding that Vilnius Airport's systems, which are used to guide arriving aircraft, were working as usual during Tuesday's test.
A 48-year-old Spaniard was killed and another Spaniard, a German and a Lithuanian were injured when a DHL cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport on Monday morning.
The inspection of the crashed aircraft should be completed within three days, after which the aircraft will be removed from the crash site.
The crashed aircraft, a Boeing 737-476(SF), belonged to Spanish airline Swiftair and was being used by DHL to deliver parcels. The aircraft was flying from Leipzig, Germany.
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