A crane has loaded the wreckage onto Grinda trucks, with a large police force deployed to the scene.
"Storage will be free of charge, it will not cost anything extra," the Police Department’s spokesman Ramūnas Matonis told ELTA on Friday. The location of the hangar has not been disclosed for security reasons.
On early Monday, 25 November, a Swiftair Boeing 737 with a crew of four was flying cargo for DHL from Leipzig, Germany, but crashed while landing in Vilnius.
One of the two pilots, a 48-year-old citizen of Spain, was killed in the crash. Three other crew members, citizens of Spain, Germany and Lithuania, were injured. The Spaniard sustained critical injuries.
The plane clipped a two-storey residential house, and some of the building’s walls collapsed. The interior was damaged by fire and 150 sq m of the roof burned down and was removed.
Several families lived in the building. Thirteen people were evacuated and offered social housing. Initial data suggests the house was not insured.
Several causes behind the crash are being investigated, including technical problems with the aircraft, a possible pilot error or malfunctioning airport equipment. Initially, there were fears of an act of terrorism or sabotage, but prosecutors have indicated that so far there has been no evidence substantiating this.