Reuters news agency reported, citing two sources in Syria, that "there is a very high probability that Bashar Assad was killed in a plane crash." According to the sources, "Assad's plane took off from Damascus toward the coast, and suddenly made a U-turn and flew south, a few minutes before disappearing from radar. This is a mystery." According to the report, the plane on which Assad was supposedly flying has disappeared from the data maps of the Flightradar website, which monitors the air movements of aircraft around the world.