Plane crash

On Wednesday, a single-engine passenger aircraft disappeared from the radars and was later found crash-landed 4 km from Riga Airport in Latvia, reports news website delfi.lv.

A plane crashed in Vilnius District on Saturday afternoon, killing two people.

A small plane crashed in the territory of a residential house in Lithuania's Kaunas District on Sunday afternoon, killing two people, local police said.

По меньшей мере 19 человек погибли при крушении легкомоторного самолета в Пакистане. В числе жертв — оба пилота и три члена экипажа. ЧП произошло в жилом районе города Равалпинди, сообщает местный телеканал Dunya News.

The Russian embassy in Vilnius has said that members of the public will be able to sign a book of condolences for the victims of Sunday's plane crash near Sochi.

The tragic FlyDubai crash in Rostov-on-Don in Russia last Saturday that killed all 62 people on board may have been caused by a sudden gust of wind but the main factor may have been the company's policy to punish pilots for diverting, said Kęstutis Zagreckas, a freelance pilot and flight instructor.

JAV Ohajo valstijos Akrono mieste ant gyvenamojo namo nukrito nedidelis lėktuvas „Hawker H25“, praneša „FoxNews“. Po lėktuvo smūgio gyvenamasis namas užsiliepsnojo. Manoma, kad incidento metu žuvo 9 žmonės - 7 lėktuve buvę keleiviai ir 2 įgulos nariai.

Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Saturday expressed his condolences over the Russian plane crash in Egypt that claimed lives of over 200 people, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Pietų Prancūzijoje sudužo keleivinis lėktuvas „Airbus A320“, praneša „La Provence“. Tuo metu spiegel.de skelbia, kad jau rasta bent viena juodoji dėžė. Šie prietaisai turėtų atsakyti į klausimą, kodėl įvyko ši baisi nelaimė. Paieškų operacija laikinai sustabdyta, ji bus tęsiama nuo ryto, tačiau oro ...

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A small plane crashed into a residential building in south-east Chicago. The pilot was killed. The local newspaper of Chicago's Lithuanian community said on Facebook that the house the plane crashed into belong to a Lithuanian family.

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The plane of Lithuanian stunt pilot Jurgis Kairys crashed in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday. The pilot survived and had to drift on a piece of wreckage of the plane for several hours while waiting for help.

Dutch experts released a report on the Malaysia Airlines MH17 passenger jet crash on Tuesday. According to the report, the plane crashed after being hit by "numerous objects" that "pierced the plane at high speed".

Lithuania is calling for immediate tightening of sanctions, starting with an arms embargo, against Russia following the Malaysian Airlines plane crash which was likely caused by a surface-to-air missile launched by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, the Baltic country's Foreign Minister Linas Linke...

At the moment, Wizz Air is the only airline operating in Lithuania that conducts flights crossing eastern Ukraine, from Vilnius to Kutaisi, Georgia. The Civil Aviation Administration has informed ELTA that Wizz Air route will be adjusted after Malaysia Airlines plane crashed and airspace above the r...

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the responsibility for the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Ukraine also falls upon suppliers of weaponry to armed militants in the region. Meanwhile President Dalia Grybauskaitė called the incident a "brutal act of terror".

The disaster of Malaysia Airlines jetliner is the consequence of Russia’s undeclared war on Ukraine, and “the plane that has been shot down is full responsibility of Russia,” says Lithuanian Ambassador to Ukraine Petras Vaitiekūnas.

There has been no need to revise flight routes for planes departing Lithuania to account for the closed air-space in Eastern Ukraine, says acting director of the Lithuanian Civil Aviation Administration Joris Gintilas.