nescafe37 wrote:Well i have just to a look at that picture above and it looks like the russians were in turkish airspace for under 2.4 miles assuming the pink track is the russian plane?
Here's copy of the letter sent to the UN from Turkey

Russia posed no threat to Turkey, so why on Earth they thought they needed to shoot down the a/c is beyond me. Now we've Obama blaming it on the Russians, take a back seat man instead of escalating it. NATO needs to take a step back here and let the Governments of Turkey and Russia sort this out.