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Lithuania cargo plane crash eyewitness speaks of seeing a "fireball"

(25 Nov 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Near Vilnius, Lithuania - 25 November 2024 1. Various of scene near crash 2. Journalists at scene 3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Svaja (surname not given), eyewitness: "I see that there's light in the room. Some kind of red sun. I immediately ran to the window and then I heard something exploding. I saw a fireball. It was also like some other flashes and black smoke." 4. Various of police 5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Svaja (surname not given), eyewitness: "The first thought (I had) is that a world (war) has begun and it’s time to grab the documents and run somewhere to a shelter, to a basement." 6. Various of scene near crash 7. Firefighters 8. Various of scene near crash 9. Police cars and fire trucks STORYLINE: An eyewitness to a DHL cargo plane crash in Lithuania that killed at least one person said on Monday that she saw "a fireball" and heard explosions from her window. A DHL cargo plane crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania's capital and skidded into a nearby house Monday morning, leaving at least one person dead, officials said. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. "I see that there's light in the room. Some kind of red sun. I immediately ran to the window and then I heard something exploding. I saw a fireball. It was also like some other flashes and black smoke," said eyewitness Svaja. The head of the country's firefighting service said that the plane skidded for a few hundred meters (yards), and photos showed smoke rising from a damaged structure in an area of barren trees. “Residential infrastructure around the house was on fire, and the house was slightly damaged, but we managed to evacuate people," said Renatas Požėla, chief of the Fire and Rescue Department. Lithuanian’s public broadcaster LRT, quoting an emergency official, said two people had been taken to the hospital after the crash, and one was later pronounced dead. The person who was killed was a member of the flight crew but not a pilot. Firefighters freed two pilots from the cockpit, one of whom was more seriously injured than the other, according to the General Commissioner of the Lithuanian Police, Arūnas Paulauskas. Paulauskas told a news conference that the causes of the accident were not yet known. Authorities were investigating and Paulauskas said officers went to the hospital to speak with the crew members being treated to gather information. The General Commissioner also said investigators are considering various possible causes, such technical failure and human error, and have not ruled out the possibility of a terrorist act. “This is one of the versions that must be studied and checked,” Paulauskas said, according to LRT. The Lithuanian airport authority identified the aircraft as a DHL cargo plane arriving from Leipzig, Germany, which is a major freight hub. It posted on the social platform X that city services including a fire truck were on site. Fragments of the plane in the company's trademark yellow color were visible in the wreckage. Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24, analyzed by The Associated Press, showed the aircraft made a turn to the north of the airport, lining up for landing, before crashing a little more than 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) short of the runway. Authorities did not immediately offer a cause for the crash, which happened just before 5:30 a.m local time. Weather at the airport was around freezing temperature, with clouds before sunrise and winds around 30 kph (18 mph). DHL Group, headquartered in Bonn, Germany, did not immediately return a call for comment. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...