breach into the state of israel, within five minutes they could be over tel aviv and two minutes over haifaon't have the flexibility to allow this type of penetration. and the syrian military air force there are aware of this, they know this and that's why they should have remained on their side of the fence and not penetrated into our airspace. >> what about the pilot or pilots of that syrian warplane? any word on what happened to them? >> we know that they ejected. they landed in syria. i don't know as far as their well-being. we can confirm we saw them eject from the airport. >> this is, what the, the first time in about 5 years there's been an incident along these lines between israel and syria, is that right, colonel? >> indeed. it's the first time an incident in the air has taken place but in rekren years we've had several incidents, cross-border fire, errant mortar fire, rockets, explosive devices along the border with syria, but, indeed, this is, of course, extremely out of the ordinary when an airplane infiltrates our airspace. i think it's since about 1985 was the last time someth