authorities are seeking to recover them, a government official said on Tuesday.
"Turkey
has information that the two pilots are alive and right now Turkey is
trying to recover them," the official told AFP, after reports that at
least one of the pilots could have died after parachuting down inside
Syria.
In Russia, Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov just said "there is no official information"
about the fate of the pilots from the downed plane.
CNN-Turk
television said Syrian Turkmen forces fighting the Damascus regime had
captured one of the pilots while Syrian opposition sources told AFP one
had been killed by rebels and the second was missing.
In
a separate incident, sources told AFP in Beirut that a Russian
helicopter in the same area in Syria was destroyed by rebels on the
ground after being forced to make an emergency landing following damage
from rebel fire.
A Syrian
military source told AFP that a unit of Syrian regime special forces
saved the dozen-strong Russian commando team and brought them back to
the regime stronghold of Latakia.
Source: AFP
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