200px|The Aegean Sea. Two fighter planes, a Turkish F-16 plane and a Greek F-16 collided in mid air and crashed into the Aegean Sea . The location of the crash is approximately 10 miles east of Karpathos , a Greek island in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. Yiannis Papageorgiou a spokesman for the Greek Air Force says that the Greek F-16 was dispatched to intercept and identify the Turkish plane that according to Papageorgiou was violating the Athens Flight Information Region, when the two planes collided. Puma helicopters as well as rescue personnel have been dispatched to the area. When the event became known, Turkish Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gül communicated immediately with his counterpart, Dora Bakoyiannis in order to have a first conversation regarding the fighter planes' crash. Both countries disagree on the boundaries of their airspace over the sea and fighters sometimes conduct mock dogfights in the area between the two countries.
200px|The Aegean Sea. Two fighter planes, a Turkish plane and a Greek collided in mid air and crashed into the . The location of the crash is approximately 10 miles east of , a Greek island in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. Yiannis Papageorgiou a spokesman for the says that the Greek F-16 was dispatched to intercept and identify the Turkish plane that according to Papageorgiou was violating the Flight Information Region, when the two planes collided. as well as rescue personnel have been dispatched to the area. When the event became known, Turkish Foreign Minister, communicated immediately with his counterpart, Dora Bakoyiannis in order to have a first conversation regarding the fighter planes' crash. Both countries of their airspace over the sea and fighters sometimes conduct mock dogfights in the area between the two countries.
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F-16
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F-16
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Aegean Sea
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Karpathos
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Greek Air Force
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Athens
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Puma helicopters
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Abdullah Gül
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disagree on the boundaries