This Monday it was known that when a cargo plane crashes coming from Leipzig (Germany) in a residential area in Vilnius (Lithuania). The accident took place when the aircraft, a Boeing 737 operated by Spanish airline Swift Air for DHLwas trying to make an emergency landing.
Laurynas Naujokaitis, head of the Transport Accident and Incident Investigation Division of the Ministry of Justice, has confirmed that Spanish and German officials are going to travel to Lithuania to investigate the causes of the incident.
“At the moment, we have information that The German security authority has appointed four investigators to carry out the security investigation, and are currently en route to Lithuania. “The Spanish security investigation authority has appointed two investigators who will arrive in Lithuania shortly”ha explained Newcomer.
In this sense, it is worth noting that the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausedahas called on citizens to “be prepared for all situations”, since “We do not know what the conclusions of the investigation will be.”
Something more precise in this regard has been the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbockwho has not ruled out (without directly naming Russia) that the accident could have been due to a like those that have been seen in recent years against people or infrastructure in Europe.
Clues about possible Russian interference
As reported by the Finnish media there are some small clues about possible Russian involvement in what happened. One of them is that The plane appears to have suffered GPS interference just before the crash.
This is reflected in the data transmitted by the aircraft at the end of the flight. They can be consulted in the open source data collection service Auonsson, although they emphasize that It is a fact that “may not be related” to the incident.
Specifically, a video published on the social networks of the data collection service shows how the GPS of the plane en route to Vilnius (Lithuania) stopped transmitting data correctly in Polish airspace over Kaliningrad (Russia).
According to the data, interference was observed during the last 34 minutes of the flight. In any case, for the moment It is impossible to confirm whether GPS interference had any impact on the accidentas other aircraft suffered the same interference at that time.
