777 and when it did, it shattered all of that fragments, all of that shrapnel, into the cockpit and instantly killed the cockpit crew. then the rest of the passengers and crew members on board were probably rendered unconscious or died very quickly after that. here's the chairman of the dutch investigation board just a short time ago this morning. >> as a result of the detonation, the forward part of the airplane was torn off. the airplane broke up in the air. the wreckage came down in an area of about 50 kilometers in eastern part of ukraine. the missile was launched from a 20 square kilometer area in eastern part of ukraine. >> reporter: the dutch are not saying who fired the missile but as you know, u.s. and ukrainian intelligence have said from day one that it was either the russians themselves or russian-backed separatists who fired that missile. the russians today said that the