"One on board was wounded when he parachuted down and killed in a savage way on the ground by the jihadists in the area and the other managed to escape and, according to the latest information, has been picked up by the Syrian army and should be going back to the Russian air force base," Orlov told Europe 1 radio, the report says.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on November 24, the Turkish military shot down a Russian fighter aircraft after violation of the Turkish airspace.
Also, the Turkish military issued a statement stressing that they had warned the Su-24 pilots 10 times of their violations, before the actual takedown.
Syrian rebels claim that the ejected pilots of the Su-24 were shot in the air as they were parachuting down. According to them, the two pilots were already dead upon landing.
In turn, Turkish government sources say that the pilots are alive and are captured by the Syrian rebels. These sources added that the government works on securing their release.
