NATO holds extraordinary emergency session after Turkey, a key NATO member shoots down Russian Fighter
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BRUSSELS: NATO allies will hold an "extraordinary" meeting Tuesday at Ankara's request to discuss Turkey's shooting down of a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border, an alliance official said. "At the request of Turkey, the North Atlantic Council will hold an extraordinary meeting at (1600 GMT). The aim of this extraordinary NAC is for Turkey to inform Allies about the downing of a Russian airplane," the official told AFP. The North Atlantic Council consists of ambassadors from the 28 NATO member states. More now from the Russian military, and about that new statement that a marine on a helicopter sent in to search for the crew of the downed jet also died. Russia’s military general staff is quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that one of the pilots of the Su-24 warplane that was shot down by Turkey was killed by groundfire as he parachuted from his crippled plane. General staff spokesman Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi, added that rebels in Syria fired on a Russian helicopter that was searching for the two pilots of the Su-24. The shooting killed one crew member on the Mi-8 helicopter and forced it to land in neutral territory, he says. The rest of the crew was evacuated. Rudskoi also said that Russian radar data showed that Turkish warplanes had violated Syrian airspace in the course of shooting down the Russian plane. Reference Source: The guardian
