Lithuanian An-2 Aircraft missing in Baltic Sea

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[Hindustani78]

Ministry of National Defence Republic of Lithuania :: News » News Releases
2015.05.18

On May 18 the search and rescue operation for the An-2 that went missing above the Baltic Sea on 16 May was renewed. The efforts are continued with the Spartan C-27J transport aircraft of the Lithuanian Air Force and the Mi-17 search and rescue helicopter of the Latvian Air Force.

The Baltic Sea territory from Klaipėda to Liepaja is subdivided into areas assigned to and surveyed by the Lithuanian and Latvian aircraft.

The Sweden’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre has also been informed about the renewed search and rescue operation.

The operation is led by the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre of the Lithuanian Navy.

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Lithuania's Palanga airport sometimes took long time to respond, Swedish pilot says - EN.DELFI
Monday, May 18, 2015

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.

Palanga Airport
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"Often I call them, no answer. What they do in the tower, I don't know. Maybe there is a bad radio (signal)," Kjell Brattfors, the head of the Kattleberg airport in Gothenburg, told BNS in a telephone interview on Sunday.

Brattfors said he had made a number of flights from Gothenburg to Klaipėda but never encountered similar problems of getting in touch with flight controllers.

"This was six or seven years ago. What I hear from the pilots is about the same problems," said the Swedish pilot.

In his words, the An-2 aircraft that the Lithuanians flew had undergone its last check two weeks prior to the flight, the pilots were extremely experienced and could not have made a mistake.


"Two guys with 15,000 hours and flying with Antonov-2 for 40 years do not make mistakes. There must be some serious problems. What they are, I have no idea. Thousands of different things could have happened," said Brattfors.

Alvydas Šumskas, deputy director of the Lithuanian Civil Aviation Administration, told BNS he had not heard any complaints in this respect before, but could not rule out that poor weather conditions could hinder the signals.

In his words, the pilots made successful contact with the Lithuanian flight control zone after entering it on Saturday afternoon.

"This was the first and the last communication after entering the Lithuanian flight control zone, they reported their location and altitude," said Šumskas.

Loss of communication with the civilian airplane An-2 was reported on Saturday evening. No traces of the aircraft were discovered by Sunday evening.

 

[Penguin]

if they violated russian airspace than they are propably being shot down from russian airdefence.

stupid westerner lackeys, can´t even fly proper flight routes, they are dumb as hell and now fishfood.

Bla bla bla. Even the Russians aren't that stupid.

there is no civilian plane in warzone. every air vehicle which enters airspace without permission, will be shot down.

What warzone. Who is at war with whom here?

Lithuania is too small to be a country.

You are too small to be a person.

yes. cold war 2.0

or do you think otherwise?

97 nautical miles off the Lithuanian coast = Baltic international waters.

funny because cold war ended with colapse of former soviet union.

Russian federation is a different player. not soviet reloaded.

soviets are obsolete today, just history of PROUD RUSSIAN NATION.

this is new cold war. cold war 2.0 with different players and different tactics. outcome will be different

more bla bla bla

 

[Agni-5]

that's a vintage aircraft, very likely there was some sort of malfunction maybe ?

Bla bla bla. Even the Russians aren't that stupid.

guy's an American troll, good thing he's banned.

 

[Penguin]

that's a vintage aircraft, very likely there was some sort of malfunction maybe ?

As of February 14, 2015 there have been 470 hull-loss accidents of An-2, claiming a total of 486 human lives. One of the most recent accidents occurred around 6:45 in the afternoon on 17 May, 2015 in the Baltic Sea, where an Antonov An-2 operated by Klaipėdos avialinijos was operating a non-scheduled flight from Gothenburg to the Klaipėda and crashed, killing all 2 crew members on board.
Antonov An-2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[Agni-5]

As of February 14, 2015 there have been 470 hull-loss accidents of An-2, claiming a total of 486 human lives. One of the most recent accidents occurred around 6:45 in the afternoon on 17 May, 2015 in the Baltic Sea, where an Antonov An-2 operated by Klaipėdos avialinijos was operating a non-scheduled flight from Gothenburg to the Klaipėda and crashed, killing all 2 crew members on board.
Antonov An-2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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there you go..

but I think mr OP here is either alluding to, or, sniffing for.. a Putin connection

 

[Penguin]

 

[Ajai Ghale]

Bla bla bla. Even the Russians aren't that stupid.


What warzone. Who is at war with whom here?


You are too small to be a person.


97 nautical miles off the Lithuanian coast = Baltic international waters.


more bla bla bla

Sorry i mistyped it Lithuania is a very big country

 

[Hindustani78]

Bla bla bla. Even the Russians aren't that stupid.


What warzone. Who is at war with whom here?

97 nautical miles off the Lithuanian coast = Baltic international waters.

Hybird war is already going on and i have seen many things personally but the sad part authorities here turned blind eye and are not willing to give compensation and showing that they all are playing games with legal immigrants who are from those nations who respect human lifes.

 

[Penguin]

Hybird war is already going on and i have seen many things personally but the sad part authorities here turned blind eye and are not willing to give compensation and showing that they all are playing games with legal immigrants who are from those nations who respect human lifes.

 

[Hindustani78]

Additional forces join search for missing Lithuanian plane - EN.DELFI
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

• 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.
  
  
  
  Kuršis
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  On Monday evening, the search and rescue vessel Šakiai of the Lithuanian navy joined the effort. It was combing the search area in Baltic Sea throughout the night.
  
  A flight control tower in Palanga, Lithuania, last heard from the plane, which was flying from Sweden to Lithuania, at 4:40 PM on Saturday evening. Two experienced pilots, Adolfas Mačiulis and Alvydas Selmistraitis, both over 60 years of age and with more than 15,000 hours of flight experience, were the only people onboard.
  
  Another vessel of the Lithuanian navy, Kuršis, has been recalled from military manoeuvres in Estonia to join the search mission. The ship is equipped with underwater radars.
  
  The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence decided to send Kuršis to help search for the missing plane after the daughter of one of the pilots, Brigita Mačiulytė, contacted Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, who is currently abroad, on Monday evening. Mačiulytė reportedly confronted the minister about why the ship, equipped with special underwater radars, had been sent to international military exercise rather than the search mission.
  
  Minister Olekas soon called back to Mačiulytė to inform her that Kuršis would be recalled from the manoeuvres in Estonia and sent to the search area.
  
  The search zone currently covers a strip of 63 nautical miles from the coast between Klaipėda in Lithuania and Liepaja in Latvia.
  
  Minister Olekas has also promised to families of the two missing pilots that the search will continue until at least Wednesday morning.
  
  Captain Lieutenant Antanas Brencius, deputy commander of the Lithuanian navy, told LRT television on Tuesday morning that the ship Šakiai had not found any traces of the plane or the pilots during the night.
  
  "On Monday evening, the Lithuanian air force's helicopter Mi-8 was continuing the search. Aircrafts will be deployed on Tuesday, too, provided that weather conditions allow sufficient visibility. Kuršis is already near the search zone. We are looking for anything afloat that can give us information about the missing plane or its crew," Brencius said.
  
  
  

 

[Hindustani78]

Ministry of National Defence Republic of Lithuania :: News » News Releases
2015.05.19

On early evening of May 19 the LNS Kuršis mine countermeasures vessel located the missing An-2 on the Baltic seafloor.

The aircraft was found roughly 700 metres away from the last position of the aircraft traced by Sweden’s coastal surveillance radar and reported by the Swedish Joint Rescue Coordination Centre.

The aircraft was found in the depth of 124 metres. The underwater robotic video camera of the LNS Kuršis identified the registration number of the located aircraft wreck coinciding with that of the missing An-2.

Next of kin have been notified of the finding.

The missing pilots are still being searched for.


May 18

 

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Missing Lithuanian plane found sunken in Baltic Sea, search for pilots continues - EN.DELFI
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

• 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.
  
  
  
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  The aircraft was found 124m below the surface by the warship Kuršis of the Lithuanian Navy some 700m from the plane's last position reported by the Swedish air radar.
  
  Inspection of the discovered ship by the Kuršis submarine robotic camera revealed that the side number was identical to the number of the missing aircraft.
  
  Families of the two pilots have been notified of the discovery.
  
  Efforts to locate the two missing pilots continue.
  
  "The pilots were not inside the airplane, therefore, the search continues," Asta Galdikaitė of the Defence Ministry's public relations division told BNS.
  
  The An-2 with two highly experienced pilots, Adolfas Mačiulis and Alvydas Selmistraitis, went missing en route from Sweden to Lithuania on Saturday afternoon.
  
  
  

 

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Ministry of National Defence Republic of Lithuania :: News » News Releases
2015.05.21

May 21, a thorough examination of the An-2 wreck lying on the Baltic seafloor carried out from the outside of the aircraft at night has possibly led to finding the body of one of the missing pilots. The operation was carried out with underwater surveying video equipment of the LNS Kuršis mine countermeasures vessel and Klaipėda University.

The new footage was today brought to the Lithuanian Navy HQ in Klaipėda and viewed with the families of the missing An-2 pilots.

Minister of National Defence sends his condolences and support to the families of the two missing men in this difficult time and will continue making every effort to find them.

Representatives of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Transport and Communications discussed lifting of the wreck at a meeting at the MoD this morning.

Yesterday the Lithuanian MoD contacted the Ministry of Defence of Sweden requesting to help find partners that could support the operation of lifting the An-2 from the Baltic seafloor with appropriate equipment.

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[Hindustani78]

An-2 sunken aircraft lifting operation ended, one body recovered - EN.DELFI
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.

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"The operation is over. One body was recovered," he said. The body was taken on the operation ship and being examined by prosecutors, Raščius added.

The operation was finished a couple of minutes before 11 p.m. on Friday and the plane was later lowered back onto the seabed. "We could barely lift it as the wings broke off during the operation," Raščius said.

The specialists had planned to lift the An-2 plane from the seabed to the depth of 5-10 meters below the sea surface by using special cables for divers to then be able to inspect it.

The An-2 with two highly experienced pilots went missing on May 16 en route from Gothenburg in Sweden to Klaipėda in Lithuania. Three days later, the plane was discovered on the Baltic seafloor. An examination two days later revealed a body of one of the pilots inside the aircraft.