If there ' s an alien queen inside they ' ve no one to blame but themselves <| sep |> Even as per the tracks released by Turkey the Russian plane was i Turkish airspace for 20 sec as per tracks released by Russia it swung around the Turkish salient . Theres a difference between a plane heading towards your cities vs a plane going from Syria to Syria and inadvertently crossing a Salient Especially since the salient used to be part of Syria . By the time the F 16 fired the plane was in Syrian space and given the geography no way the F 16 stayed on the Turkish side . It too had to come to Syrian airspace as the direction it was travelling was towards Syria . So it was a deliberate provocation meant to make Russia back off from bombing the Turkmen rebels . Of course the Russians doubled down and put in an S 400 which imposed a no fly zone over Turkey . No Turkish planes flew near the border for months till Erdogan apologized . Also Russia bombed the shit out of the Turkmen rebels .