Lengthy article includes raw video footage..
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news...onstructing+final+moments/11543118/story.html
"The dogfight did not come out of the blue. For days, Russian jets had been roaring along the Turkish border, bombing the hills on the Syrian side in support of an Assad regime attack on rebel forces.
Around 9 a.m. local time Tuesday, the Turks decided they had had enough. As two Sukhoi-24 fighter bombers flew over a spit of Turkish territory that juts into Syria, they scrambled two of their own fighters and issued warnings.
The Turkish jets, F-16s sold to Ankara by their close NATO allies the United States, engaged and shot down one of the SU-24s. The time was 9:24 a.m.
The downed plane had already, according to one account, released its payload of air-to-ground missiles on the rebels beneath.
The reality of a dirty war, one that is filmed and broadcast online in real-time, was quickly brought home to a Russian audience that had cheered on Moscow’s latest intervention in the Middle East’s battles.
Within minutes, two videos had been posted on YouTube: one of the Turkmen rebels the Russians had been bombing firing machine guns at the solitary figure of a pilot dangling under an orange parachute, jerking slowly towards the ground. The other showed the rebels gathered around a body, the eyes of the pilot staring open, but lifeless. “Allahu akbar,” the rebels shouted.
The key to understanding the events lies in the sides Turkey and Russia have taken in Syria’s civil war. This has little to do with Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) and the Levant, whatever Russian and Syrian regime media may be saying."
