He died in a Russian airplane.
In one of these sorties he shot down a Russian airplane, becoming the first Turkish pilot to bring down an enemy aircraft.
On 18 May 1979 the main mast collapsed after a collision with a Russian airplane of the type Mig-21.
It was sunk on 24 March 1943 by an impact of a mine laid by a Russian airplane.
Russian military airplane (SU-27) brought down one of them.
Spanish pilots are invited to Russia for training in Russian airplanes.
They can take any Russian airplane down to its serial number and build it back up.
"I'm sure you never expected to be one of the biggest operators of Russian airplanes outside of Russia."
These will be Russian airplanes, and the Russians will hire qualified American civilians to fly them.
Her fate is officially unknown, but sources report that may have struck a mine or been sunk by a Russian airplane.