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Lithuanian navy terminates above water search for An-2 pilots

May 22, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On 21 May, at 4:10 PM, the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of the Lithuanian Navy decided to terminate the above-water search operation to find two pilots of the Lithuanian aircraft An-2. […]

Body of one missing Lithuanian pilot found inside sunken plane

May 21, 2015 DELFI EN 0

The body of one of the two missing pilots might have been discovered on Thursday night after thorough inspection of the An-2 airplane on the Baltic seafloor, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence says. […]

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Lithuania asks Sweden for assistance in salvaging sunken plane

May 21, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has asked Sweden for assistance in salvaging a sunken An-2 from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. […]

Lithuania’s prosecutors to launch investigation into airplane search operation

May 21, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas turned to the Prosecutor General‘s Office asking to launch a pre-trial investigation into how the search and rescue operation of the aircraft An-2 and its crew was carried out. […]

No floating objects found in Baltic Sea in missing pilots search operation

May 20, 2015 BNS 0

A Lithuanian Air Force helicopter looking for two missing pilots in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday did not find any floating objects spotted in water on Tuesday. […]

Rescuers locate floating object in Baltic Sea that might be related to An-2 crash

May 20, 2015 BNS 0

After an object has been located in the Baltic Sea, a helicopter was dispatched to the site to establish its possible connection to the crashed An-2 airplane, Lithuania’s Environment Vice-Minister Antanas Valys said on Wednesday. […]

Lithuanian defence minister to look into missing plane search operation

May 20, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas will visit the Navy‘s headquarters in the port city of Klaipėda on Wednesday to inspect the initial results and course of the efforts to locate the missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots, the ministry said. […]

Missing Lithuanian plane found sunken in Baltic Sea, search for pilots continues

May 19, 2015 BNS 0

The Lithuanian airplane An-2, which went missing on Saturday with two pilots aboard, was discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Sea on Tuesday afternoon, the Ministry of National Defence said, adding that the search for the pilots continues. […]

Lithuanian president critical of “failure to coordinate” among institutions in missing plane search

May 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented that the search and rescue operation launched in order find a missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots has revealed that Lithuanian institutions responsible for search and rescue missions fail to properly cooperate and coordinate among themselves. […]

Additional forces join search for missing Lithuanian plane

May 19, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A search mission that continued throughout the night on Tuesday have so far failed to find any traces of the An-2 airplane that went missing on Saturday afternoon over the Baltic Sea. After two and a half days of search by Lithuania’s air force and navy, assisted by Latvia, the plane and two pilots are yet to be found. […]

Lithuania resumes search for missing An-2 plane in Baltic Sea

May 18, 2015 BNS 0

Search for an An-2 civil airplane that went missing above the Baltic Sea on Saturday afternoon with two Lithuanian pilots is being resumed on Monday. […]

Lithuania’s Palanga airport sometimes took long time to respond, Swedish pilot says

May 18, 2015 BNS 0

On a flight from the Swedish city of Gothenburg to the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda, the Palanga airport in Lithuania sometimes took a long time to respond to messages, says the Swedish airport chief who escorted the Lithuanian pilots who later went missing above the Baltic Sea. […]