Turkey Locates Bodies Of Pilots Of Downed Jet

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Turkey’s military on Wednesday said it had found the bodies of two pilots of an F-4 jet shot down by Syria last month and was working to retrieve them. 

From Reuters

The military has been searching for the pilots and this week brought in a specialized ship to recover the wreckage of their plane, some 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) underwater.

It named the pilots as Air Force Captain Gokhan Ertan and Air Force Lieutenant Hasan Huseyin Aksoy. The military did not specify where the bodies were found, but there has been no report that the pilots ejected from the plane.

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