Syrian Airdefences shot down Turkish plane

[SinoChallenger]

Turkey says warplane lost off Syria | Reuters


(Reuters) - Turkey said on Friday it had lost contact with one of its military aircraft while it was over the sea off the southeastern coast, and a television station said it had crashed in Syrian territorial waters.

CNN Turk television said Turkey was in contact with the Syrian authorities to get permission to conduct a search for the airmen, although there was no immediate official confirmation.

In a statement, Turkey's military said a search and rescue operation was underway. It lost radar and radio contact with the plane after it took off from Erhac Airport in the eastern province of Malatya, which borders Syria.

Two crew were aboard the F-4 at the time of the crash, the Turkish state news agency Anatolia said, citing Malatya governor Ulvi Saran.

Pro-Iranian Al-Mayadeen television station, which is based in Lebanon, quoted what it said were Turkish sources as saying a jet had been shot down by Syrian air defenses near the border with Turkey. There was no confirmation of that report.

What a great victory for Russia and its allies against NATO. Another failed mission for NATO.

 

[ihealugo]

ok for pilot , i am sorry but! : if they shot down it there is 2 possibility:
1- pilot had died in jet.
2- he ejected (then arrested by syrian rebels)

 

[Pak47]

Sorry for your loss.. What kind of plane was it?

 

[ihealugo]

they say phantom (f4) but may be RF 4 for spying ...

 

[Killuminati]

They will not go to war...

Killuminati, its the first I agree with you, AKP's foreign policy againys Syria was retarded.

The most of their foreing policy is retarder. No north-iraq infasion but yes to Nato shield. No to Lybia invasion but suddenly yes for a Nato attack. And that mavi marmara bullcrapness.. his bullcrap one minute fashion.. Making a illegal meeting in Turkey for Syrian en Hizbollah rebels and financing them.. Taking the best generals in to jail etc. etc.

Yeter artik biktim bu ikiyuzlulukten. Adam gibi dassakli biri yok Turkiye'yi oyuncak ettiniz be masonlarin ellinde. Ne hali varsa gorsun Turkiye'nin.

 

[Targon]

Pilots are rescued, since plane is downed eject is the only way to survive, they most likely rescued from sea, what rebels ?

 

[Killuminati]

ok for pilot , i am sorry but! : if they shot down it there is 2 possibility:
1- pilot had died in jet.
2- he ejected (then arrested by syrian rebels)

I was thinking about this to.. What kind of air defence system they couldt be used because of the fact that the pilots escaped.

 

[anon45]

Sorry for your loss.. What kind of plane was it?

f4 phantom

Hope the pilot is safe.

 

[Adir-M]

Turkey have Early Warning plane?

 

[Deno]

It looks like the way US sunk their own ship and went war against Vietnam... I am really really doubfull of this news... Syria has no plane that can even match Phantom let alone Phantom modernized by Israel...

 

[ihealugo]

even in the arab-israel wars , the syria defences were doing good , but they had done a stupid thing: they left some borders because they thought jordan will cover it , but jordan let israel to use it's air and then boom boom
syria needs 2 thing: 1- a good intelligence agency 2- better generals ,,,,

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Damascus apologizes for downing Turkish military F-4 plane: Erdogan

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Syria had admitted it shot down a Turkish warplane in the Mediterranean and that Damascus had apologized.

The two pilots of the Turkish F-4 fighter jet are alive, Erdogan had earlier said, before holding a press conference in Ankara.

“At this moment the air force and navy are conducting search and rescue operations in the western Mediterranean and luckily our pilots are alive, we have just lost a plane,” he told journalists while travelling back from Brazil.

Earlier, the Turkish army said it lost radar and radio contact with one of its aircrafts on the Mediterranean near neighboring Syria, and a television station said it had crashed in Syrian territorial waters.

But Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar television station said that Syrian air defenses shot down the Turkish military aircraft, quoting Syrian security sources.

“Syrian security sources confirmed to a Manar correspondent in Damascus that Syrian defense forces shot down the Turkish fighter jet,” the Hezbollah-owned channel said.

Turkey, which had drawn close to Syria before the uprising against Assad, became one of the Syrian leader’s fiercest critics when he responded violently to pro-democracy protests inspired by popular upheavals elsewhere in the Arab world.

Ankara has previously floated the possibility of setting up some kind of safe haven or humanitarian corridor inside Syria, which would entail military intervention, but has said it would undertake no such action without U.N. Security Council approval.

Turkey said it had lost contact with one of its military aircraft off its southeastern coast, and a television station said it had crashed in Syrian territorial waters.

The plane took off from Malatya airbase in the southeast at 0730 GMT and lost communication with the base at 0858 GMT in the southwest of the Hatay province bordering Syria, the military command said in a statement posted online.

“Search and rescue efforts have started immediately,” it said.

CNN Turk television said Turkey was in contact with the Syrian authorities to get permission to conduct a search for the airmen, although there was no immediate official confirmation.

The Turkish government called an emergency security meeting when the military plane went missing near Syria.

Erdogan and top military and intelligence chiefs are set to attend the meeting to discuss the fate of the plane, Anatolia news agency reported.

The Hurriyet daily newspaper reported that the plane had gone down in international waters and that the two airmen had been found alive and well following a search operation by Turkish forces.

The Chief of General Staff declined to comment further on the incident beyond the written statement.

Turkish warplanes regularly patrol along and off Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast.

Pro-Iranian Al-Mayadeen television station, which is based in Lebanon, quoted what it said were Turkish sources as saying a jet had been shot down by Syrian air defenses near the border with Turkey. There was no confirmation of that report.

 

[anon45]

Hope the pilot is safe, A no-fly zone should be established. Of course this means all anti-air defences should be destroyed.

Lets see how they work against a true coordinated attack instead of taking potshots at planes patrolling across the border.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

even in the arab-israel wars , the syria defences were doing good , but they had done a stupid thing: they left some borders because they thought jordan will cover it , but jordan let israel to use it's air and then boom boom
syria needs 2 thing: 1- a good intelligence agency 2- better generals ,,,,

LOOOOL, nice noob story.

 

[anon45]

Oh, also forgot to note that this could potentially invoke NATO. Not likely, but it seems to fit the treaty.