الجيش التركي فقد الإتصال بطائرة عسكرية عند الحدود السورية وأردوغان يؤكد أن الطيارين "على قيد الحياة"

Maybe it is a defector from Turkey. lol

I hope the syrians shot him.
That will be a good execuse for Turkey to invade Syria and get rid of the butcher

Is that the real picture of the vanished plane ?

What type jet was it? Was it the Tornado(as depicted in the picture on the article) T.A.F. Doesn't operate Tornados. Their fighters are only the F-4, F-16 and F-5. Besides, why would Turkey be sending Fighters to Syria? And more importantly, why is Syria just shooting down the jets? It doesn't make any sense. If anyone finds out what type of jet, please let us all know, Thanks ;)

“the two pilots were found alive in the Mediterranean, eight miles away from the Syrian territorial waters.” so it went down in the Med, so much for Syrian heroics but nice try.

"Two pilots" sounds like F-4 Phantom (pilot plus weapons officer). F-16 and F-5 only have one person on board.

TurAF operates mainly F-16 and F-4 variants, F-5's aren't in active, frontline service.

Official press release from Turkish Armed Forces indicates an aircraft took of from Erhac Airbase at 10.00, radar and radio contact was lost 11.58 local time. Search and Rescue units from Coast Guard and Air Force are conducting ops.

As far as I know, three squadrons are positioned on Erhac, 171st "Korsan" Sq, 172nd "Sahin" Sq, 173rd "Safak" Sq. 171st operate F-4E 2020 Terminators, 172nd operate F-4E's. These are fighter bombers so they fly in pairs. 173rd Sq operate RF-4 aircraft, recon variant of F-4, so it is regular for them to fly alone. There is no mention of a second aircraft in release, so I believe it is safe to assume the downed aircraft is a RF-4.

That area have very strong bird presence and there are records about bird strikes. Some villagers claim they've seen flocks of storks in the area.

There is also an unconfirmed report about two pilots are found and alive.

As for the claims about a shot down, shooting down a Turkish aircraft may trigger an article 4 NATO response, so it does not make sense.

My 2 cents.

f-4

F-4 for sure and most probably an RF-4, which is the unarmed recon version.

Syria just traded in one MiG for an F-16...that's a good deal!!!

it was F-4E Phantom.

f4

this is an F-4 picture (as stated in the article), Toronado's engine- intake is totally different....

it is defenitly not an f16 ,its a phantom f4

it is an f-4 on the picture , not tornado ...and it is an f-4 which was downed..dont know why u are talking tornado or f-16 ...

"Malatya governor Ulvi Saran told the Anatolia news agency that it was an F-4 plane with two pilots onboard, without elaborating further."

manzoumit el dife3 el jaouy el sourieh radars , hq , command and control
were spoted by the west so all of these will become primary and first target if the offensive on syria beggins

F4 Phantom

if the Syrian used anti air missal im 100% sure the pilot should of known about it and that's why they aboard the plane,but that's weird bc the Radars could of captured the missiles,unless its an S400 which i doubt Russia gave that to Syria,Iranians been begging Russia for that,its a missiles that even the radar cant detect it.but probably they did, its a message to West or something,unless it was a Russian sub that shut it down.but that's impossible,why would Syrian apologies.

Russia 1, Losers 0

@Flamethrower: If you knew anything you would know that the Tornado is more modern than the F-4 (which was used in the Vietnam war)

Reported shot down by Syrian military. the syrian army must be loosing their mind, now they are messing with Turkey. its time to start pounding these aholes down and teach them a lesson. start sending cruise missiles and destroy all of assad's miltary infrastructure

Nice work Syria of trying to bring NATO into it--Russia may have to sit back now and get out of the way because Syria brought this on themselves--can't blame "terrorists" or rebels on this one.