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Lithuanian authorities have disclosed as the search for the black boxes of the crashed Boeing 737 near Vilnius Airport (VNO) has continued, investigators from multiple countries, including the United States, as well as representatives from Boeing, will join the investigation to unravel what happened to the converted freighter that crashed in the Lithuanian capital. Joined by the FAA, NTSB, and Boeing In an interview with LRT , the public service broadcaster of Lithuania, Arūnas Paulauskas, the police commissioner of Lithuania, and Laurynas Naujokaitis, the head of the Transport Accident and Incident Investigation Division of the Ministry of Justice of The Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublinkos teisingumo ministerija, TM) disclosed that multiple parties would help with the investigation of the converted Boeing 737 freighter operated by Spain-based Swiftair that crashed in the early morning hours of November 25. Naujokaitis said that four investigators from Germany and two from Spain, presumably from the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung, BFU) and Spanish Civil Aviation Accidents and Incidents Investigation Commission (Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil, CIAIAC) will join the investigation of the crash.

Furthermore, a total of 12 people will arrive in Vilnius to help with the process: four from the National Transportation Safety Board ( NTSB ), three from the Fede.

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