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THE GUARDIAN ONLINE: Syrian rebels 'shoot down' fighter jet
Free Syrian Army fighters claim to have shot government MiG-23 jet over Deir Ezzor and captured the pilot.
Free Syrian Army fighters in Deir Ezzor said they had downed the MiG-23 fighter jet early on Monday morning as it flew low on a bombing mission over the town's Mohassan district. Video shows part of a jet bursting into flames, followed by ecstatic rebel cries of "God is great".
Syria's state news agency, Sana, said the jet had suffered a technical failure on a training mission and the pilot had ejected. The rebels said they had shot the MiG down using a heavy machine gun and captured the pilot, Colonel Mufeed Muhammed Salman, who appears in the video.
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