Telemakhos called in the crew, and told them: “Get everything shipshape aboard this craft; we pull out now, and put sea miles behind us.”

"Our plane was shot at a distance of 13 sea miles from Syria's border in international airspace," Davutoglu said.

By this time the Calder bore almost due west, at a distance of six sea miles, for the patrol-boat had described a complete semicircle.