A radar track released by the Turkish military purports to show the downed Russian Su-24 fighter passing over Turkish territory before it was shot down.
The track contradicts an earlier statement from the Russian Defence ministry, saying: "During all flight time, the plane was flying only within the borders of Syrian territory. Objective monitoring data shows it."
However, even if the radar image is genuine, it shows a flight track that would put the plane over Turkish territory for only a few seconds.
The flight path crosses a 2km-wide "isthmus" of Turkish territory that juts into Syria.
At the Su-24's top speed, it would have flashed across that area in well under 10 seconds. Even if it was flying much slower, the map does not show the length of incursion into Turkish airspace that Turkey has claimed took place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Su-24 had been shot down over Syrian territory, 1km from the Turkish border, by an air-to-air missile from a Turkish F-16 jet.
#BREAKING Flight radar track on downed warplane issued by Turkish military pic.twitter.com/xREQbclVwK— CNN Türk ENG (@CNNTURK_ENG)
November 24, 2015
It crashed in Syrian territory 4km from the border, he said.
The Turkish military said two F-16s on patrol had fired on an unidentified aircraft after warning it 10 times over five minutes about violating Turkish airspace over the town of Yayladagi.
A US official told American CBS News that radar tracking confirmed the Russian plane was in Turkish airspace, though he said "it was close" to the border.
