Hatay

B

A

Latakia

Iskenderun

Jisr al-Shoughour

Aleppo

20 miles

TURKEY

Mediterranean Sea

Path of Turkish jet fighter, according to Syria

Approximate extent of 12-mile territorial waters

SYRIA

TURKISH VERSION

SYRIAN VERSION

Syrian and Turkish government officials gave conflicting stories of last Friday’s incident at their borders.

State television broadcast this flight path of a Turkish F-4 fighter. As the plane flew at low altitude toward the coast, land-based Syrian antiaircraft batteries fired at it with cannons that have a maximum range of less than two miles. Syrian salvage workers recovered wreckage from the jet showing cannon damage.

The jet “mistakenly entered” Syrian airspace over the Mediterranean, but left after Turkish radar operators warned the crew. There was no warning from Syria. Nine minutes later, the jet was struck by a heat-seeking missile at a point 13 nautical miles from the Syrian coast (A).The jet turned toward shore and crashed at this point (B).

Black Sea

Ankara

Detail area

SYRIA

IRAQ