Interfax, Moscow: Plane shut down over Kodori gorge - local residents
TBILISI. Aug 24 (Interfax) - A military plane flying over the Kodori gorge has been shut down, and its fragments are still smoldering, two residents of the Kodori gorge told Georgia's Rustavi 2 television by telephone on Friday evening.
After several shots were fired at the plane, it lost control and fell in a hard-to-reach area, they said.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has confirmed the incident, saying that fire was opened at a plane that intruded into the Georgian airspace over the Kodori gorge, but it declined to provide further comments.