ISIS ATTACK: Terror group captures pilot after shooting down plane

Islamic State group fighters shot down a Jordanian warplane on Wednesday over Syria and captured its pilot, activists and the country's military said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the aircraft was shot down near the northern city of Raqqa, the Islamic State group's de facto capital.

Jordan's state news agency, Petra, confirmed that the pilot was from Jordan and he has been captured, the BBC reports.

"During a mission Wednesday morning conducted by several Royal Jordanian Air Force planes against hideouts of the IS terrorist organization in the Raqqa region, one of the planes went down and the pilot was taken hostage," a military source was quoted by Petra as saying.

"Jordan holds the group and its supporters responsible for the safety of the pilot and his life," the source added.

Another group, the Raqqa Media Center, said the warplane crashed near the village of Hamra Ghannam, adding that ISIS militants were searching the area in case there is another pilot.

If true, it will be the first warplane shot down by ISIS since the U.S.-led coalition began its airstrikes against the group in Syria three months ago.

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