Author Topic: Physicists Show Both Russia And Turkey Were Lying About The Downed Russian Plane  (Read 602 times)

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According to this, Russia lied about the location, Turkey lied about the time.

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Following the recent downing of a Russian military jet by Turkish forces somewhere along the border of Syria and Turkey, both nations offered very different accounts of what happened. Two astrophysicists at the Belgian university KU Leuven have used simple Newtonian mechanics to show why both countries’ accounts cannot possibly be correct.

Last week, a Russian military jet was shot down by Turkey, who claims that it violated their airspace for 17 seconds, and ignored 10 warnings in the space of five minutes. Russia claims that it was shot down over Syrian airspace, and that it never violated Turkish territory. Two Belgian researchers decided to review the video footage of the incident to try and ascertain which account is more accurate....

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-show-both-russia-and-turkey-were-lying-about-downed-jet