VIDEO: Turkey shot down a Russian military plane on the border with Syria
It is a military-type aircraft SU-24, which is, according to Turkey, violated the air space of the country.
Turkish Armed Forces shot down a Russian military plane near the Syrian border, said the Turkish authorities.
Russian military aircraft production type SU-24 was shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border after ten warnings in five minutes, intercepted him and collapsed two Turkish fighter jet F-16 this morning at about 9:30 local time, because the hurt Turkish air space, said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Turkey.
Pilots downed planes are ignored warnings and aircraft are in decline abandoned parachute jumping, according to Anatolia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on that fighter aircraft SU-24 shot down in Syria in the attack from the ground, and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a public speech in the afternoon.
"The investigation into the circumstances of the fall of the Russian aircraft is in progress," according to the Ministry, and that the plane was in Syrian airspace at 6,000 meters high, according to Russian news agency TASS.
The Ministry confirmed that the two pilots downed aircraft on time and catapulted parachute landed on the ground, and that is determined by what happened to them.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged the Foreign Ministry to discuss "developments on the Syrian border," consult with NATO, the United Nations and other countries involved, transmitted Turkish media.
NTV and CNN Turk broadcast the footage of the military aircraft in flames as it crashes into the mountains near the Turkish border opposite the southern province of Hatay.
The pilots ejected
One Turkish official is a question the agency AFP said that trying to identify which country the plane belonged.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Gaziantep, said that the plane was shot down in the mountains near Antakya.
"What we know for now is that the plane was shot down on Turkey's border with Syria, close to the mountain Antakya," reported the Ahelbarra.
He said that witnesses saw the two pilots ejected from the plane.
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- 24 Nov, 2015
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