Israel blames F-16 downing in Syria operation on ‘pilot error’ :-)

LOL what a spin, yeah I'm sure the pilot didn't mean to fly into a missile and get shot down. Israel doesn't want to admit the their planes can get shot down. It stamps a big lie to their alleged invincibility, of course when you use aircraft against the Palestinians who can only throw rocks you will seem invincible too.

Israel blames F-16 downing in Syria operation on ‘pilot error’
RT : 26 Feb, 2018

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet, shot down by Syrian air defenses during Israeli raids on Iranian targets earlier this month, apparently crashed only because its pilot made a mistake, an Israeli Air Force investigation has claimed.

On February 10, the Israeli Air Force lost one of its supersonic fighters while striking Iranian targets on Syrian territory. Tel Aviv had launched the biggest air raid operation in over three decades after intercepting an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace. Swiftly reacting to the ongoing “retaliatory attack,” the Syrian government activated its air defenses in order to try and intercept incoming missiles – and eventually hit one of the Israeli F-16 fighter jets which had breached Syrian airspace.

On Sunday, the Israelis confirmed that the F-16 was taken down by the Soviet-built S-200 surface-to-air (SAM) missile system, known to NATO as the SA-5.

Following the incident, in which both pilots of the Israeli aircraft survived, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched its own investigation into the causes of the crash. After analyzing the chronological order of events during the Israeli strikes and the Syrian response to it, the internal review of the Israeli experts determined that a pilot mistake was responsible for the F-16 take down.

“On the balance of completing the mission versus defending themselves... the aircrew failed to adequately defend itself. Its actions did not match the needed order of priorities to address the missile threat it faced,” the report said, according to Haaretz. Furthermore, Israeli pilots were well aware that they would be exposed to enemy fire during their mission to destroy the Iranian drone command and control center.

“In the operational theatre, there were a number of planes that did indeed defend themselves against the Syrian launchings while completing their mission. One of the planes that did not defend itself, was hit,” a senior Israel Air Force officer told reporters, commenting on the conclusion of the probe, Reuters reports.

At the same time, the IAF said that the pilots did the right thing by ejecting from the plane, calling it a decision that saved their lives. The conclusion of the probe, made public on Sunday, revealed that the crew possessed the adequate intelligence to complete the mission. It also added that the F-16’s warning systems had behaved properly at the time of the incident.

Israel remains undeterred by the takedown of its F-16, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared following the incident, using the events of February 10 to issue new threats against Iran, whose forces are involved in the Syrian conflict at Damascus' invitation.

Selected Comments:

# They r right. Being aggressor is a mistake.

# The other pilot error, seems to be firing missiles into Syria, from Lebanese airspace !


# So, do make another mistake, result will be same.

# ISIS air force was put on their place that day.. :-)

# Basically, what they are saying, their pilots have never faced someone shooting back at them, always attacking defenceless targets. But this time, they were not defenceless. L.O.L. Proves the Israeli air force is not as great as it thought. Go Syria.

# Hey, I think it was a pilot error - that freaking pilot was in Syria, that was his error.

# The mistake was that he was illegally flying in foreign airspace.

# mistake was he flew into a projectile.

# Typical of Israel keeping its 'immaculate and immortal' propagandistic appearance of being unable to be defeated. In the real world, they are just as weak and as vulnerable as any other nation in war.

# And the hasbara headquarters aka mainstream media does the rest: Part 1 "Israel claimed that it intercepted an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace on Saturday, February 10; Iran denied that it had a drone there. Israel then bombed a Syrian airbase, saying it was the command-and-control center from which Iran had launched the drone. The Syrian government shot down an Israeli jet that had bombed the base, and Israel subsequently launched more airstrikes against Syria.”

# Hahahahaha Israel and America are both run by the same people this is why the news coming out of them are fake and ridiculous LOLOLOL.

# America's true goal in Syria is regime change to install a puppet to approve a gas pipeline into Europe to break the EU's dependence on Russian gas to be able to turn up the sanctions on Russia to turn them back to the Uni Polar NWO agenda. PERIOD!

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Israeli warplanes attacked military targets near Damascus from Lebanese airspace, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian Army claims it destroyed most of the Israeli rockets.

Syria’s official news agency SANA said the military responded to “a new Israeli aggression” near the capital.

“The general command of the armed forces holds Israel fully responsible for the dangerous consequences for its repeated, aggressive and uncalculated adventures,” a Syrian Army statement said, as cited by Reuters. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military about the reported incident.

Syria accused Israel of a similar attack on January 9, in which missiles targeted military outposts in the area of Qutayfeh, in the Damascus countryside.

Selected Comments:

# US plans to start war on Lebanon to weaken Iran. That's why, Israel intentionally uses Lebanon air space to attack Syria.

# The WEST + UN never blame the Juice for their aggression; but should you defend yourself against the juice then the WEST + UN will come down on you with fury .. so that indeed says a lot about the s0-called system ..

# Rothschilds created Z1onist Israel to be a war machine and to bring about the arrival of the Jewish Messiah aka Lucifer. through exactly these types of aggressions.

# see all the lovers of israel say go israel, but when it happens to them they scream terrorism.

# They are foaming at the mouth to see Assad dead, and Syria balcanized.

# Just do the math...here's just a couple..Kushner, Schiff, Schumer, Blumenthal, Sanders, Feinstein, Lieberman,, all Jews.

# Perhaps Lebanon should upgrade their air defense. I think i know some people who are willing and able to help with this.

# Israel is an artificial country created by UK in Palestinian land. Jews snatched Palestinian land and established Israel and claims it's promised land by god.