"On Saturday, October 3, a Russian Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft briefly, for a few seconds, entered Turkish airspace as it was making a maneuver over mountain-woody forest terrain to return to Hmeymim airfield after a planned combat flight," the major-general told a briefing.
"After checking and analyzing data of objective control, the command of the air group of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria has taken necessary measures to prevent such incidents in the future," he said.
- "As you can see on the map, Hmeymim airfield is situated about 30 kilometers from the Syrian-Turkish border. Under certain weather conditions, approach to the airfield is made from the north," ministry’s spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a briefing.
"That is why, the incident occurred because of unfavourable weather conditions in that area," he said, warning against attempts to find some conspiracy motives behind the incident.
[tass.ru]
5/10/15
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Nato says Russia's violation of Turkish airspace over the weekend "does not look like an accident"...
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Russia says a violation on Saturday lasted a few seconds and was due to poor weather. It says it is looking into claims of a second violation.
Russia launched an air campaign in Syria last Wednesday.
Turkey has twice summoned the Russian ambassador - once over the first violation, which occurred on Saturday, and once over a second violation that Turkey says took place on Sunday.
Mr Stoltenberg called the Russian violation "unacceptable" and said Nato was taking it "very seriously".
Mr Stoltenberg said he could not confirm reports that a Russian war plane locked its radar onto Turkish jets.
He said Nato and Russia had military-to-military lines of communication open which had not been used, and that it would be natural to do so......BBC