Lithuania has found no sign that the crash on Monday of a DHL cargo plane was caused by sabotage, and believes technical issues were a more likely explanation, officials said on Wednesday.

German leaders raised the possibility that a fiery cargo plane crash in Lithuania on Monday was the result of sabotage or hybrid warfare.

VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania has found no evidence of terrorism or sabotage so far in its investigation of a DHL cargo plane crash near Vilnius airport, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Lithuanian investigators have so far found no evidence that the crash of a cargo plane from Germany in Vilnius could have been caused intentionally. "Based on what we have and what we know now, there are no indications that it could have been an act of sabotage,

Lithuania is leaning towards a technical cause for the crash on Monday of a DHL cargo plane as it came in to land at Vilnius airport, the country's National Crisis Management Center said on Wednesday.

At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday. The Boeing 737, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house as it was on its final approach for landing, local authorities said.

A DHL cargo plane crashed near an airport in Lithuania early Monday, killing a Spanish crew member and injuring three others on board, officials said.

Lithuania has found no evidence of terrorism or sabotage so far in its investigation of a DHL cargo plane crash although the black boxes containing flight data and voice recorders have not yet been found,

Recovery work continued on Thursday after the crash of a cargo plane earlier this week in Lithuania. Emergency services continued to collect the wreckage of the Swiftair aircraft, which was travelling from the eastern German city of Leipzig to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on behalf of logistics company DHL.