HORRIFYING new video has emerged showing the doomed DHL plane plummeting towards the ground before erupting into a fireball.
The chilling final audio of the pilots involved in the tragic crash has also now been revealed with no alarm being raised at any point during the attempted landing.
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The mystery has continued to deepen around what may have caused the fatal descent with a secret service probe underway amid a suspected Russian cargo bomb campaign.
Officials have confirmed that the pilot died instantly in the fireball crash with two crew members being injured and another missing.
The 31-year-old Boeing 737-400 clipped a two storey residential building in Lithuania at around 5:30am before crashing into a woodland.
A terrifying video of the final few seconds of the aircraft’s horror fall shows it hurtling through the morning sky as cars drive past on a nearby road.
The cargo plane, used by DHL, can be seen quickly turning on its side before smashing into the residential block.
Sparks are instantly visible in the harrowing CCTV footage taken from a short distance away on top of a snowy hill.
Moments later a giant blast erupts across just miles out from Vilnius Airport where the plane was due to land.
A devastating flash of light fills up the security camera before a worrying cloud of flames and smoke begins to grow in size.
A giant fireball then erupts as plumes of black smoke billow up into the sky.
Several towering rows of flames continued to rip through the Lithuanian capital.
Audio from air traffic control exchanges with the pilot released hours later showed there was no panic or alerts as it approached Vilnius airport.
The pilot can be heard saying as he descended: “Could you please confirm expecting ILS, I am not expecting ILS.”
An ILS – Instrument Landing System – helps pilots land safely in low visibility but was not required as the plane, call-sign Swift18D, was told to descend to 4,000ft then to 2,700ft.
It was then given clearance to land before contact with controllers stopped as it vanished off radar and crashed.
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There was reportedly no initial data pointing to an explosion on board.
The head of Lithuania‘s firefighting and emergency services unit, Renatas Pozela confirmed the one death and added that many residents had to be evacuated.
He said: “We are working at the crash site. Initial data shows that registered residents of the house have been evacuated.
“The primary concern now is the aircraft crew – we confirm one fatality. Two crew members were rescued alive, and one is still missing.
“We were fortunate the plane hit the yard and not the house directly.”
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Anti-terror teams are now set to examine black box flight recorders as they look to interview any survivors.
Concerns over potential Russian interference spiralled earlier this month when Western spy chiefs accused Putin’s agents of planting firebombs on cargo planes in a dress rehearsal for mid-air mayhem.
On November 5, the agents were said to be suspected of launching a “dry run” for attacks using magnesium incendiaries hidden in crates of “personal massagers.”
The massagers contained explosives which would have started fires impossible to put out with on-board extinguishers, experts feared.
One of these devices burst into flames at a DHL cargo terminal in Minworth near Birmingham in July.
Another destroyed the contents of a shipping container after exploding in Leipzig, Germany.
The exact spot where the doomed DHL plane took off for Vilnius at 2.08am yesterday.
Putin’s goons are also suspected of addressing dummy parcels to the US and Canada to test other routes for a future state-sponsored “hybrid war” attacks,
Lithuanian army chief Raimundas Vaikšnoras has already warned today “our enemy doesn’t sleep” amid the Russian sabotage claims.
He said the military has “a lot of knowledge” about the crash – but will not comment until investigations are complete.
Vaikšnoras added: “We provide the necessary assistance, for example, to reverse the data, look at the navigation, where, what happened.
“But we probably need to wait when the black box is removed and then the aviation or disaster investigation committee will resolve everything.
“These provocations, such as GPS signal blocking, have happened before, and not only Lithuanian airlines or those flying from Lithuania complain.
“But maybe we should wait for the investigation.”
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