Ta Nea, Greece:
Turkish Fighter Jet Conducted Reconnaissance Flight
Athens. The Turkish fighter jet, which collided with a Greek F-16 south of the Greek island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea on May 23, had been conducting a reconnaissance flight, Ta Nea reported. It was accompanied by a reconnaissance aircraft RF-4 Phantom. It had to take a photo of the Greek batteries in the eastern part of the island of Crete, which are equipped with Russian anti-aircraft batteries C-300. Ta Nea writes that the Greek aviation had information that Turkish planes – one reconnaissance aircraft and two F-16 fighter jets –had to carry out a secret mission on May 23 aimed at identifying the position of the batteries.
Greek F-16 fighters took off from Karpathos in order to intersect the Turkish fighters. When the Turkish fighters were about 21 miles south of Karpathos, the Greek fighters identified them because they had violated the aviation regulations.
The Turkish General Staff of the Armed Forces did not mention any reconnaissance aircraft RF-4 Phantom in its official statement. Ankara shifted responsibility for the crash on the Greek pilot.
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