AMMAN (Reuters) - A Syrian air force pilot flew his MiG-21 fighter plane over the border to Jordan and requested asylum on Thursday, the first defection involving a military aircraft since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The pilot landed his plane at the King Hussein military airbase 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Amman and immediately asked for sanctuary, Jordanian officials told Reuters. "He is being debriefed at the moment," Jordan's Minister of State for Information Samih al-Maaytah said
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