German Foreign Minister questions if DHL cargo plane crash was a 'hybrid incident'

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.