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Old 16th Jul 2012, 10:03
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Efe Cem Elci
 
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Surely the only snippet that might be accurate is where the wreckage is located?? Do we know there was no communications from the F4? do we know the mission the aircraft was on, its route, its brief?
We know what we have been told by the military, so take that with a pinch of salt...

Not sure if this is still the official position but it used to be a week ago: Unarmed recon aircraft on training run, strays into Syrian airspace, warned by base to return to Turkish airspace, does so and communication is lost completely.

By the way, autopsies on both pilots show cause of death to be extreme trauma from the aircraft impacting the water at high speed with no signs of any shrapnel on their bodies or any wound suffered from a potential ground-to-air or air-to-air attack.
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