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Turkey pilots warned Russian jet 10 times before shoot-down: US
Washington (AFP) – The US military on Tuesday backed up Turkey's claim that Turkish pilots had warned a Russian jet 10 times — but failed to get a response — before shooting it down.
“We were able to hear everything that was going on, these (communications) were on open channels,” Baghdad-based military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a video call with reporters.
He added it was not immediately clear on which side of the Turkish-Syrian border the Russian jet had been flying, and it would take some time to analyze data before arriving at that determination.
The Pentagon says no US forces were involved in the Turkish downing of the Russian jet.
The United States has a strong presence in Turkey and regularly flies warplanes out of the air base in Incirlik as it conducts bombing runs against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq …. http://finance.yahoo.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/turkey-pilots-warned-russian-jet-10.html
