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Across western and thats where the tragedy took place. why was it taking that route? it had on different days taken different routes. on that day for various reasons whether it was taken a northern route. if this flight plane was entirely planned in advance, this wasnt made up at the moment. it was the flight path of being on airway l980 that was the flight plane it had taken. closer analysis of that flight plan shows it was an open airway. the international organization you and i have talked ab...

Thats confusing the situation on the ground. the other fact there, of course, the debris field is very wide and scattered. that, of course, hampering investigations, as well, john. >> the fact that the separatists have shot down planes over the last couple days coupled with this audio that nic was telling us about that points so many fingers that likelihood this was the pro-russian separatists in this area that did this. >> it happened just this morning raising a lot of questions. if there have ...

There is the weather there, thunderstorm right in the way of the morning plan so they moved the plan a little farther to the north. now there is a new note that came in. notice to airmen, this is the area down here restricted earlier. now all of eastern ukraine absolutely restricted to all u.s. planes, the faa put this out now, a new noticed airmen activity in this area, flights in this area and they are using this word, prohibited. not frowned upon but the word is prohibited. so we wont see any...

Releases or certain statements yesterday. how communicative have they been? and also, when you talk directly about that flight thats going to be taking off in the same -- from the same origination to the same destination, what do they say about the flight path? >> we didnt find anybody saying that the flight path had been changed. but obviously we know, yesterday, the airline made a statement. theyve been giving most of the press releases on their website. and most of the information has been co...

Okay? we also know that the paint job, the camouflage, the armament, isnt exactly like that that the ukrainian army is using. so the only place that you could get the -- this equipment is from russia. just on wednesday, we had video proof of grad rockets being fired inside russian territory into ukraine. >> right. and now we have video proof apparently of this buk missile system, two missiles being covertly brought back to russia. so that too -- another piece of evidence there. james miller, tha...

Northeast of the typical flight path. yesterday, they flew to the north due to thunderstorms. yesterday, they went much further to the north. that is the suggested reason they took the different flight path. what i found interesting is this flight path was further away from the faas restricted area. that previously incruded the crimea pe lins la and the black sea. the attack was further away from the restricts path. malaysia airlines does not have to follow faa restrictions, but you can see many...

Job in terms of intel. >> reporter: john, i think that you will see the restrictions end up being costly and they will be disruptive because aviation experts say that that flight path over eastern ukraine is increasingly busy. its a growth area in the aviation industry because of the high traffic between europe, particularly between europe and the middle east and europe and asia. john? >> amy kellogg, thank you. >> i would just think its about time we find a way to pay for every plane to have th...

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Welcome back. a lot of questions about the route that was taken by malaysia airlines flight 17. a lot of airlines have been avoiding the airspace over eastern ukraine since the fighting broke out. ukraine has closed it indefinitely. want to bring in cnn aviation analyst miles obrien. miles, obviously, there were a lot of airliners avoiding this airspace. do we know malaysia airlines reasons for taking this flight path? i mean, it was a very high altitude, 33,000 feet. >> technically, it was free...