just going around circles in this. please do. it could also be an explosion from the fuel tank. if you have that sort of explosion, you would get a detonation-like experience and you would get metal fragments. now, if those metal fragments are more akin to parts of the aircraft or nuts, bolts, shrapnel, the sort of things we saw with mh-17 where the cockpit crew had very specific pieces of shrapnel from the missile within them. that s what they ll be looking for. that s what they re looking at. now you re looking at where the bag would have been placed. let s go back to lockerbie. the suitcase carrying the radio which carried the bomb was loaded in the front compartment of the aircraft, and, yes, that s where you got the passengers that had the shrapnel in them. so there s an enormous amount of
fire crew that they need to have back in place before they can get up and running again for this airport. but from an investigative standpoint and from the myriad of stories that you covered concerning a ining aviation and just like this one, how long before we see this airport back up and running? oh, i think they ll have that in a matter of at least by tomorrow if not sooner. by cordoning off the area where the plane is. they won t want to move that right away. but in any event, i do think that this will be a fairly rapid investigation. normally, they can take up to a year and then if it s a mystery, it can take much longer than that. in this case, you ve got wreckage largely intact there to pore over, you ve got a cockpit crew which is alive and able to do interviews about what they saw, they ve got the black boxes on the plane itself.
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
cockpit were later recovered from the victims, from the cockpit crew and they used those pieces of evidence to determine what they say happened to malaysia flight 17. a short time ago, the chairman of the dutch safety board. 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 the eastern part of ukraine. the missile was launched from a 320-square kilometer area in eastern part of ukraine. of course, that s contested territory. what the dutch are not saying is who fired that missile. but they do say it is a russian-built missile. they believe it is an sa-11, a buk missile. that is the missile that brought down malaysia flight 17. however, now the dutch and pardon me, the americans and the
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