Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
The fact is, it does not matter what you thought it was up too. You do not have the right to shoot things down in international airspace.
Americans seem to be enamoured with rights. If it was all legit and above board why has someone not said, For instance, that is was a training flight for a new "pilot" based in Turkey.

Very clever tactics by the Russian pilot. Although he did press the fuel release button a tad early.