{"id":8827,"date":"2017-03-05T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T11:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/pilot-of-crashed-syrian-jet-rescued-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2017-03-05T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T11:07:50","slug":"pilot-of-crashed-syrian-jet-rescued-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/pilot-of-crashed-syrian-jet-rescued-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot of crashed Syrian jet rescued in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File photo of a Syrian MiG-23, the type identified by Turkey&#039;s prime minister. This photo was taken in Ayn Tarma, east of Damascus, on 25 February 2016.\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/6594\/production\/_94940062_gettyimages-512197622.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      The aircraft was identified as a Syrian MiG-23 (File photo)                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The pilot of a Syrian military aircraft that crashed near the border between Syria and Turkey has been found alive and taken to a hospital, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The plane&#039;s pilot, who ejected before the crash, has only been identified as a Syrian national.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what caused the crash, in southern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>An Islamist group which is fighting Syria&#039;s President Bashar al-Assad said the plane had been shot down, but the Syrian government has not confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>A Syrian army source had said earlier the air force had lost contact with a fighter jet on a mission near the border, according to the country&#039;s state TV.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was found exhausted after a nine-hour search, Turkey&#039;s state-run Anadolu news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a hospital in Hatay province, but no details were given on his condition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey v Syria&#039;s Kurds v Islamic State<\/li>\n<li>Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim had earlier identified the jet as a Syrian MiG-23. It crashed near the Turkish village of Yaylacik, some 35km (22 miles) from the Syrian border.<\/p>\n<p>But the case was not a matter of border violation, Hatay&#039;s Governor, Erdal Ata, was quoted by Anadolu as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham tweeted a video which it said showed the plane being &quot;targeted&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>It said the plane had been bombing Idlib province in northern Syria when it was shot down by opposition forces.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey supports rebel forces in Syria, which oppose the government of Bashar al-Assad. Turkish military forces also operate on the Syrian side of the border, targeting both Kurdish rebel fighters and so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-39172115 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption The aircraft was identified as a Syrian MiG-23 (File photo) The pilot of a Syrian military aircraft that crashed near the border between Syria and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}