BREAKING NEWS - Turkey shoots down RUSSIAN jet for violating its air space:
Flaming Su-24 fighter spirals into the ground in Syria where rebels capture one pilot and are hunting the other
- Turkish army shoots down Russian war plane on Syrian border
- The jet violated Turkish air space and ignored ten warnings, army says
- Russia claims the jet had been in Syrian airspace when shot down
- In response, Turkish army released flight tracking data showing violation
- Pilot captured by Turkmen - ethnic Turks subjected to airstrikes this week
Turkey's military have today shot down a Russian war plane near its border with Syria after the jet violated Turkish air space.
The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter planes after ignoring nearly a dozen warnings, Turkish army officials said.
However, Russia's Ministry of Defence claims the jet was in Syrian airspace, and was shot down from the ground.
Footage shows the plane engulfed in flames as it comes crashing down in Syria's Turkomen Mountains, an area which has been the cause of recent tensions between Turkey and Russia.
