A DHL Boeing 737-400F flying from Leipzig, Germany, to Lithuania hit a building in Vilnius and exploded into a huge fireball early Monday morning, killing a crew member and injuring three others.

Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Italy, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock raised the question of whether the plane crash was a hybrid attack.

Authorities must “seriously” consider whether a cargo plane crash in Lithuania was an act of “hybrid” warfare, Germany’s foreign minister said.

Annalena Baerbock, raised the possibility that the crash had been caused on purpose, telling reporters: “We must now seriously ask ourselves whether this was an accident or whether it was another hybrid incident,” in an allusion to the recent severing of cables in the Baltic Sea that officials have said could have been sabotage.

“The German authorities are working very closely with the Lithuanian authorities to get to the bottom of this,” she added.

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Monday, November 25 2024, a DHL cargo flight has crashed into a neighborhood close to Vilnius Airport.

A DHL cargo flight crashed near Lithuania’s Vilnius airport on Monday at about 0330 GMT, killing one person and injuring two others.

“Two have been taken to hospital, and one has been declared dead. These are the people who were on the plane, according to preliminary information,” Saulius Raševskis from the Lithuanian rescue service told LRT.

The Boeing 737-476F (registration EC-MFE), operated by SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL, was flying from Leipzig Germany. The aircraft fell on a house, a spokesperson for the governmental National Crisis Management Center said.

All of the people in the house survived, he added.

Firefighters were seen at 05:30 GMT pouring water onto smoke from a building some 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport runway in the Lithuanian capital.

A large police and ambulance presence was seen nearby and several nearby major streets were cordoned off.

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