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The search for a Lithuanian-registered plane that went missing on its way from Gothenburg to Lithuania with two pilots aboard continues in the Baltic Sea on Sunday morning.
Search for missing plane underway in Baltic Sea
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Antanas Brenčius, a spokesman for the Lithuanian Navy, told BNS an Air Force helicopter took off at 7:20 a.m. to assist naval ships, which continued the search for the missing An-2 through the night.

"There is no news. They are searching (for the plane) 97 nautical miles off the coast, where it lost contact with the Aeronautical Rescue Co

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