the plane was mh-17. a boeing 777. on that scheduled flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur, malaysia. now malaysian air confirmed losing contact with that plane independently. lost contact on its radar but the malaysian government is saying that it has no further information about the airliner. now that interfax news agency went on to say that the plane was shot down. again, this is a ukrainian source. without give anything more detail, except to say the plane was flying at 10,000 meters, about 33,000 feet, when it was allegedly hit. that it did not enter russian air space when expected, which was around 1725 local time, i believe. instead, it crashed inside ukraine. we know as mike mcfaul just said that this is a very volatile part of ukraine cross border violence has been going on between ukrainian armed forces
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access to meet the needs of the humanitarian needs of gaza. and one of the other developments overnight, martin, i would like to get more information on this, israel says hours before that temporary humanitarian cease fire, that it captured a dozen palestinian fighters who had actually tunnelled under the border? they have didn t capture them, they attacked them and killed not sure how many they killed some, what happened was that in a secret tuchbl that hamas had dug from gaza into israel, israelis say 13 palestinians went through the tunnel, very well equipped, apparently with explosives, rocket launchlaunchers, weapons the israelis say their goal was to attack a place very nearly where the tuchbl came and exposed and went into the air, into the open. the israelis say they spotted the palestinians before they were able to do anything and
territory. let me bring in aviation expert john cox. as we know, this comes about four months after malaysian air 370, the plane that s never been found, presumed crashed, now we have this new information, not linking the two, but both malaysian airlines, 777s and crashing over ukraine? reporter: this is a real tragedy, the information that i ve been able to pull from the internet has not been verified but usually from a good source, indicates this was a 777 flight operating at 33,000 feet at its last report. that s about it. that it was from amsterdam to malaysia and that s about all we know. those are the details that we have right now. let s talk about a little bit about this boeing 777 and some of the issues in recent reports
russia, some of the rhetoric coming, not just from the u.s. but other world leaders, hoping that vladimir putin would stand down and some kind of compromise would be reached here. that it has not been successful. as to your point, there s been an escalation in the violence there. and it was just this morning, on morning joe and i can t recall the guests at the time, discussing the worry that if this crisis continued, something of this magnitude, which we are watching, if this report is true, this flight was shot down, something of this magnitude would eventually happen. yep, and it has happened. i mean, that s wars always have lots of unintended consequences. and to think you can just turn off and on the level of violence that they want, and mistakes are made, accidents happen and this, i think, is a consequence of russia s behavior. i think that s the thing we have