Lithuanian state enterprise Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation) has reached an agreement with Dutch company Mammoet on the scanning of the An-2 plane which recently crashed and sank in the Baltic Sea.
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Civilian rescue operations should be coordinated by a separate crisis management centre and not by the army, says Kęstutis Budrys, the president's adviser on national security issues.
Lithuania is holding talks with a Dutch company on salvaging the An-2 plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea on May 16, killing two pilots.
Fighter jets conducting the NATO Baltic air policing mission were scrambled twice last week to intercept a Russian military aircraft flying in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea between mainland Russia and its region of Kaliningrad, Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence said on Monday...
Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius has not rejected the possibility of resigning after the aircraft An-2 disaster. However, at first the minister said he would like to know more details and offered to wait for the causes of the disaster to be clarified.
Chief of the Lithuanian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Commander Artūras Andrušaitis, said on Friday that the An-2 airplane that crashed into the Baltic Sea may have not had all the necessary rescue equipment aboard.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 (1)
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...
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 ...
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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.
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.