[adzii_nufc]

Russia insist they never entered Turkish airspace and gave a completely different flight path and crash site. The turks insist it did fly through Turkish airspace. Either way it's unfavourable for the turks even if it did cross, it worked out as a 17 second excursion if they followed the path the turks claim it did. Doesn't help it was shot down way outside of Turkey either.

The shooting was intentional obviously and I doubt even Turkey are dumb enough to shoot down a jet without it at the very least having strayed into Turkish airspace. It's still an overreaction that the Russian's will be all too happy to milk to their advantage. There's also the case of the co pilot having been killed by people shooting at him whilst parachuting. The Japanese know all too well about that kind of despicable act. I think that'll be the bigger problem for Turkey than just shooting the jet down.