2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown

When

24 Nov 2015

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

37.11° N, 42.36° E

Description

shootdown of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft by Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jets

Deaths

1

Turkish shootdown near the Syrian border

On 24 November 2015, a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M attack aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border. According to Turkey, the aircraft was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading ten times over a period of five minutes before entering the airspace.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish–Syrian border in the first case of a NATO member destroying a Russian aircraft since the 1950s”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Rusya Federasyonu Hava Kuvvetleri'ne ait Sukhoi Su-24M tipi uçağın sınır ihlali gerçekleştirdiği iddiasıyla Türk Hava Kuvvetleri'ne ait F-16 uçağı tarafından…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Abschuss eines russischen Kampfflugzeugs vom Typ Suchoi Su-24 durch die Türkei über dem Grenzgebiet zwischen Syrien und der Türkei führt zu einer schweren…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Президент Турции Эрдоган заявил, что турецкие военные сбили над Сирией российский самолёт Су-24 в связи с нарушением воздушного пространства Турции”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “إسقاط طائرة سوخوي 24 الروسية من قبل تركيا، ونشوب خصامات سياسية بين البلدين بسبب ذلك”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ロシア軍爆撃機撃墜事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page