Captain Donatas Suchockis, public relations officer at the Lithuanian army‘s Joint Staff, told BNS that the airplane had been flying without an agreed flight plan but was in contact.
“The IL-76 was flying to the Kaliningrad region without a plan but with a transponder switched on and it maintained radio contact,” said Suchockis.
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