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A Turkish military plane crashed on the border of Georgia and Azerbaijan (video)

Share: The plane turned out to be Turkish. The pilot managed to eject. The Ministry of Defense of Turkey has confirmed the crash of the C-130 military transport plane that took off from Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani publication Minval reports. The plane crashed on the territory of Georgia. Search and rescue operations are being conducted jointly with the Georgian authorities. So far, nothing is known about the cause of the plane crash.

It is noted that the C-130, which took off from the city of Ganja in Azerbaijan, with the flight number TUAF543, disappeared from radar over Georgian airspace shortly after take-off. Flight tracking websites show that the plane's signal was lost shortly after takeoff, while some videos shared on social media show the moment the plane went down in Georgia's Rustavi region.