Body Of Downed Russian Pilot Back In Russia

[Purveyor]

Source: CNN

By Tim Hume and Zeynep Bilginsoy, CNN
Updated 3:51 PM ET, Mon November 30, 2015

Istanbul (CNN)In the bitter debate over where a Russian warplane was flying when Turkish aircraft shot it down, the United States took Turkey's side Monday.

The available information indicates the warplane shot down last week was in Turkish airspace, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said at a Monday press briefing.

Moscow has steadfastly maintained its jet was over Syria when it was downed.

The State Department announcement came after the body of a Russian pilot who died after the jet was shot down along the Turkey-Syria border was flown back to Russia, according to Russia's Ministry of Defense.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/europe/syria-turkey-russia-warplane/index.html

[msongs]

1. will they give him the lenin's corpse on display treatment? nt

[COLGATE4]

7. No, but I suppose they will probably do something

equally open to criticism by some, as in turning his remains over to his family for proper burial.

[Sunlei]

2. could the Russian pilots have survived if the eject system wasn't a 30 year old antique??

Did Russia upgrade pilot ejection system to the new modern version or does their military have to fly unsafe old junk?

[malokvale77]

3. Do you honestly think...

the US military isn't full of unsafe junk (old and new alike)?

[Sunlei]

4. So you think the russians should have both survived the eject?.

[malokvale77]

6. Huh?

They would have had one not been shot dead.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

5. One of them did survive.

The other was shot to death, rebel-stylee, I believe.

[Nihil]

8. They did survive the ejection. One didn't survive the murdering bastards on the ground.

But nice try at diversion nonetheless.