The Israel Military confirmed on Tuesday morning that a Patriot missile had shot down a Syrian fighter jet over the Golan Heights. The incident was a first in at least a quarter-century. The jet was deemed to have intruded into Israel's no-fly-zone.
An Israeli Patriot missile battery had shot down a Syrian fighter jet that infiltrated half a mile into flight exclusion zone controlled by Israel over the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning.
The audiovisual recording of Israel's first downing of a Syrian jet since 1982 exposed two scorching fragments of the plane falling to the ground and then the parachutes of the pilot and navigator who expelled instants afore impact.
An Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson confirmed to NBC News that a Syrian jet penetrated into Israeli skies. They seized the aircraft in mid-flight by using its Patriot defense system. The said Syrian jet was thought to be a MiG by the Israeli authorities and the situations of the occurrence were being studied. However, as per Syrian State TV, an unidentified Syrian military source described the shot down as an act of belligerence.
The IDF said that the last time Israel downed a Syrian MiG was on November 19, 1984. The Israeli dogma is not to impede in Syria's rampant civil war, but officials have presaged that anything that crosses the border will get shot down. A Syrian drone was shot down on August 31 and ammunitions from the hostile in Syria sporadically land in the Golan Heights.
Because of the incident, Syrian government promptly doomed the downing of its jet and linking it to US-led airstrikes against Islamic State insurgents (ISIS) in Syria. The Syrian jet had entered the Israeli-controlled flight exclusion zone a few minutes before 9 in the morning and was airborne at between 10,000 and 14,000 feet when it was betrothed.
Services sources and experts defined the Syrian jet as a Sukhoi 24, which they say had flown from eastern Syria's Saikal air base. They said they alleged it had drifted into Israeli-controlled airspace while fully armed on a mission to bomb anti-government groups on the border's other side. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the warplane had been blasting areas outside Quneitra, a Syrian town near the Israeli-held side of the frontline, at the time it was shot down.
The verdict to bring down the Syrian jet was taken after it had spent one minute and 20 seconds in Israeli airspace. Defending the decision, sources and military experts said the subversion by an equipped enemy aircraft could not be tolerated.
In current weeks, fighting on the Golan Heights, which Israel apprehended from Syria during the six day war in 1967 - has upturned rigidities on the normally unobtrusive border.
Notwithstanding Tuesday's incident, former Israeli air force commander Eitan Ben Eliyahu said he did not consider that the Assad regime was trying to aggravate a growth, adding that he did not believe that the Syrian jet sat a peril to Israel before it was shot down over the Golan Heights.
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