A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house on its approach to Lithuania's Vilnius Airport on Monday morning, killing one crew member and injuring others.
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00:00Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy, German Foreign
00:07Minister Annalena Baerbock questioned whether the DHL cargo plane crash in Lithuania was
00:12a hybrid attack.
00:15On Monday, the cargo plane arriving from Germany crashed on approach to the Vilnius airport
00:19in Lithuania, killing one crew member and injuring three others.
00:24We now have to seriously ask ourselves whether this was an accident, or whether a hybrid
00:32crash again shows in what volatile times we are currently living in Europe.
00:40The cause of the crash remains unknown and an investigation is underway.
00:45Lithuanian officials said sabotage cannot be ruled out, but stressed that there is currently
00:49no concrete evidence.
00:52Aviation experts who spoke to local media said that they noticed nothing out of the
00:56ordinary when they listened to the communication between the crew and the air traffic controller.
01:01You can see that it was a routine situation, looking into the eyes of the passengers, it
01:07was a routine communication between the flight crew and the pilots, they did not declare
01:13any dangerous situations, they did not talk about any accidents, accidents, anything else.
01:20Both Spanish and German officials will further assist Lithuanian authorities in their investigation.