One month after a small Lithuanian aircraft, An-2, crashed into the Baltic Sea on 16 May, the public still knows very little about what happened and why. If officials in charge of the investigation know more, they keep it to themselves.
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Alcohol has been found in the blood of Adolfas Mačiulis, one of the pilots of the An-2 plane that crashed flying over the Baltic Sea in mid May.
The Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence has completed its inquiry into the An-2 airplane accident over the Baltic Sea.
Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas does not admit to have made any mistakes during the search and rescue operation for the An-2 plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea in the middle of May, and has not plans to resign.
Lifting the An-2 airplane from its crash site at the bottom of the Baltic Sea is too expensive, says Lithuania's Transport and Communication Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius, adding he would suggest at the government's meeting on Tuesday to leave the airplane on the seafloor.
The lifting of the An-2 plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea in mid May was ended on Friday night, and the body of one of the pilots was recovered, Algimantas Raščius, director general of the state company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation), told BNS.
The An-2 plane, which crashed and sank in the Baltic Sea in mid-May, will be lifted up from the bottom of the sea for divers to be able to inspect it, Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius said on Wednesday, adding that there are currently no plans to salvage the airc...
Experts are examining video footage of the An-2 airplane sunken to the Baltic seafloor and, with proper preparations completed, lifting operations may be started on Friday, says Algimantas Rasčius, CEO of the state-run company Oro Navigacija (Air Navigation).
Thirty-three members of the opposition at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, have signed an interpellation against National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas.
A team of specialists started inspecting the sunken An-2 plane that crashed on May 16 with two pilots aboard while flying over the Baltic Sea from Sweden to Lithuania. The inspection results are due on Tuesday afternoon, says Edvinas Ivanauskas, director of the firm Mammoet Baltic which is carrying ...
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.
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.
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.
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has apologised to families of the missing An-2 pilots for poorly coordinated search and rescue operation.
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.
