Russia says there will be serious consequences, and I don't doubt that. One of the pilots was killed and the other might be captured. See the article here.

Now, from here, it looks like the Turks were working with some al-Qaida forces in the area. The Russian plane was supporting Syrian troops which have been on the offensive in an area controlled by several rebel forces including al-Qaida's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front. And some other jokers, the 2nd Coastal Division and the 10th Coast Division, who are probably also affiliates of al-Qaida. Or own a franchise. Jahed Ahmad, a spokesman of the 10th Coast Division, said its forces fired at the Russian pilots as they descended and one died. Wow, class act! Shooting at parachuting pilots. What's next? Kicking puppies? Excuse me, but could it be any more obvious that the Turks support al-Qaida?

Some think tank chimed in with a typical "The Russians are coming!" ride to Concord. Sarah Lain, a propaganda jockey at the Royal United Services Institute, said the last time she could remember a NATO country shooting down a Russian plane was the 1950s. "But the Soviets appear to have shot down more U.S. planes amid the Cold War," she quickly added. Right, and they did. Those were B-47 spy planes that were over Soviet airspace and, therefore, legitimate military targets. So was the U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers that the Soviets bagged and Powers, rather inconveniently for the U.S., did not commit suicide as he was trained to do. Let's also not forget that the U.S. used to fly formations of B-52s towards the borders of Soviet airspace to test their air defense response times to scramble interceptors. Moves like that could have started a nuclear war. But, hey, we got to see how long it took their planes to respond, so it's all good, right?