The British Bases are keeping a close eye on whether their early warning systems in Troodos spotted the S-200 missile that was launched just minutes after 1.00pm on Monday and crashed on the slope of Pentadaktylos between the villages of Kuodso Vonodos.
The course of the rocket, based on the most probable scenarios for its launch base, passed over the British Dekelia Bases before reaching the point of crash and explosion.
At the same time, it should be noted that, in addition to the fact that by chance there were no casualties in Cyprus, a major tragedy was avoided by a possible collision of the rocket with one of the many planes flying at that time in Nicosia Fir between the coasts of Syria and Lebanon and of the point where the rocket landed.
Among other things, at that time - between 1.00 and 1.10 on Monday morning - at least five Turkish planes were flying over the area and two more were in the process of approaching and landing at the illegal Tympos airport, relatively close to the area where the rocket landed.
Flights that took off from Tel Aviv were also endangered. According to the flight data, at that time they were passing through the area between Cyprus and Syria, from where - as everything shows - the rocket passed, planes that took off from Tel Aviv, to San Francisco, USA and Moscow, as and planes bound for Beirut.
The 10.80-meter-long S-200 missiles reach a height of 30.000 -35.000 feet during their flight, a height that the planes were flying east of Cyprus at that time, while shortly before its crash, ie during its fall due to the fact that it reached limit of its range, near were the two Turkish planes landing at the illegal airport of Tympos.
This is not the first time that S-200 missiles fired from Syria have landed in another country - on April 3, 2018, a similar type of missile landed in Jordan, fortunately again without casualties.
It is worth noting that, according to the available information, at the time of the airstrikes, both electronic systems of GPS systems were activated from a Syrian air base in order to deceive the Israeli missiles and from Israeli systems to protect the F 16D that was the target. of the Syrian S-200.
And Turkish UAV in the area
Until shortly before the Israeli airstrikes, a Turkish unmanned aircraft codenamed TCS-02 was conducting a reconnaissance flight between the Sahriyah and Antakya regions of Syria for about three hours - from 10.00 on Sunday night until 1.00 on Monday morning. flying at 17.000 feet, according to Philenews.
This is a UAV that has been spying intermittently in the area for the last two years.
Source: Philenews