(Jerusalem) The IDF have announced that they have shot down a Syrian regime SU 24 strike aircraft which entered its airspace today. It appears the IDF began tracking the aircraft after it took off from the T4 airbase and as it approached Israel, warnings were given in numerous languages, but the aircraft continued on its flight path. After it penetrated Israeli airspace, 2 Patriot missiles were launched at it . The Su 24 was hit and fell into the the Syrian part of the Golan heights. The pilot Colonel Umran Mare was killed , with the fate of the second pilot who managed to eject, still unknown.
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