[AndyNemmity]

""Starting from the moment we landed, F-16s started flying above us, very close to the ground," Erdogan said."

The F-16s had him locked in, and never fired. Which was odd.

It all doesn't really make a ton of sense, but it's possible.

[zymhan]

It would be pretty unprecedented for the coup members to shoot down the sitting president's plane. They would almost certainly just prevent him from landing, or allow him to land and arrest him immediately.

[AndyNemmity]

The official story is the coup plotters attacked the hotel where he was staying, so it wouldn't be unprecedented given the official story.