“There is information that a MiG modeled plane estimated to be belonging to the Syrian regime crashed in the [southern province of] Hatay, Samandağ, Yaylacık region. There is information that the pilot jumped from the plane. Our units there are helping the search efforts,” Yıldırım said, Anadolu Agency reported.
Yıldırım was asked whether the plane fell in the Turkish territories.
“There is no clarity on that issue. It can be in our border or Syrian border, that will be clear after the examinations. There is also no clarity on the reason for why it crashed, but there are reports that the weather conditions were rather unfavorable,” he also said.
Hatay Governor Erdal Ata, meanwhile, said that the gendarmerie and medical teams reached the wreckage of the plane.
“According to the information I received a short while ago, the gendarmerie and medical teams reached the wreckage of the plane. It was seen that the cockpit place of the plane was empty. We think that the pilots survived by jumping,” Anadolu Agency reported Ata as saying.
Earlier, Ata said that the plane might be belonging to the Syrian side.
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
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Syrian Army Lost Contact With Jet Flying Reconnaissance Mission Near Turkey...
ReplyDeleteThe Syrian army lost contact with a jet performing a reconnaissance mission near the Turkish border, local media said Saturday.
Earlier in the day, fighters from Syria's Ahrar al Sham Islamist extremist group claimed to have shot down a Syrian government MiG-21 fighter jet over the Syrian province of Idlib. Syrian government sources later reportedly confirmed that contact had been lost with a low-flying plane over Idlib, but said this was due to technical difficulties.
Contact with the jet was lost and the military is now searching for the pilot, who had ejected, the SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has confirmed that a Syrian military plane had crashed in south Turkey's Hatay province......http://sptnkne.ws/dGA2
A Mig-23 fighter jet of the Syrian Air Force crashed on Saturday in the area bordering Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on the HaberTurk TV channel...
ReplyDelete"The plane is supposed to be a Mig-23 of the Syrian air force," he said. "The pilot is believed to have bailed out. The plane crashed on the Syrian side of the frontier, but the pilot may have come down either on the Syrian or Turkish side. We have no precise information."
Turkish rescue teams and police rushed to the area where the fuselage had presumably fallen, the prime minister said.
The debris could be scattered nearby the (Turkish) town of Samandag in the Hatay region, near the border with Syria, he added.
Hatay regional authorities say neither pilot nor debris has been found.
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A plane believed to be a Syrian military aircraft has crashed near the border between Syria and Turkey, Turkish officials say...
ReplyDeleteA Syrian army source also told state television the air force had lost contact with a fighter jet on a mission near the border.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it was a MiG-23 warplane.
He said a search was under way for the pilot, who was believed to have ejected.
An Islamist group which is fighting the Syrian government tweeted a video it said showed a plane being "targeted".
Turkey's state-run news agency Anadolu quoted a spokesman for the Islamist group Ahrar-al_sham, Ahmed Karaali, saying the regime plane was allegedly bombing Idlib province in northern Syria when it was shot down by opposition forces.
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Contact lost with military aircraft carrying out reconnaissance mission near Turkish borders...
ReplyDeleteA military source announced on Saturday evening that contact was lost with a military aircraft that was carrying out a reconnaissance mission near Turkish borders, and that the search for its pilot is underway.
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