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Flight path itself, theres a lot of dispute whether or not malaysian airlines should have been flying over there given the military incursions there. we know -- according to the malaysian transportation minister 15 of the 16 airlines fly this route over ukraine. theres a dividing line. malaysian airlines and lufthansa fly over ukraine, british air aways and air france avoided you i crane. does it tell you anything about the airlines? >> im baffled why they allowed the planes to fly over that air...

Of flight 17, the faa expanded u.s. flight restrictions over eastern ukraine. >> there are certainly questions about the route flight 17 pilots took on their way to kuala lump lumpur. most have been avoiding the area because of the fighting. indra petersons is here to take a look at the dangerous flight path. >> getting closer to why the flight path changed yesterday. theres a lot of reasons flight paths change. one can be weather. the flight path to the south, the path they took yesterday is 20...

Criminally wise, you must secure the crime scene. all i see is people wandering around the crime scene and god knows what they are picking up and apocalyptpocketing. it will show the termination of a innocent flight and it went black. >> you have 40 years in this industry. what went through your mind and reflections personally about this incident? >> horror. absolute horror. when you put yourself and your family on board my aircraft and any pilots aircraft, i am only there for one thing, the ann...

Son, this mother cried. i just want to see my son. her son was on malaysia airlines flight 370, which disappeared on march 8th, enrude from kuala lumpur to beijing. and still today, not a single piece of wreckage has been found. those families are offering condolences to another group, the family members of flight 17. for struggling malaysia airlines, its two lost nights in four months. 534 lives. reaction on twitter, shock and surprise. unreal, one tweet says. malaysia airlines crash again. >> ...

Guideline, the flight path they took to the south, that would have been more dangerous. only now have they expanded the restrictions to include the flight path area they did take yesterday. malaysia airlines does not have to follow the faa regulations. regardless, that was considered a safer area. the one thing to show is there were 21 other planes in the region. not to say there were no planes right now. russian airlines as well as private jets were flying in the restricted air space. >> its in...

Plane flying on for a long way? >> no, possibly not. the kind of weapons that the could reach an aircraft at altitude, the sa-11 that ukrainian government ministry suggested it might have been, s-300, similar weapon have quite large warheads designed to do a lot of damage. a civil aircraft is not designed to take such punishment could have flown in varying states of damage before finally falling apart sop distance after the impact. >> edward hunt. >> shepard smith back in new york now. we cant k...

Worldwide. maybe somebody was looking at that, saw 21,000, somehow that has been injected into the discussion. we probably should actually drop that from the discussion right now and focus on the fact that the aircraft probably was at cruise altitude. somebody happened that brought it down, either it was controlled and then there was some surface-to-air incident, or there was something that happened on the aircraft, but for whatever reason, that black smoking hole is very, very real. so somethin...

The whole time im wondering, wow, isnt there a war going on down there and arent we at risk flying on these airplanes? clearly the international community has to get together on some of these zones where planes are flying and lay down rules about why we do or dont fly over these areas. >> weve seen an adjustment with some airlines saying this isnt the flight path theyll take in this region. thank you very much. youre a pilot. you were taking a look at the flight paths over the last several days....

Near the russian border. its on that strip between amsterdam and kuala lumpur where the flight was going. i want to bring in chad myers right now to discuss this flight path. give me a sense of how this thing was going and where it was headed. >> looking at flight aware, we have been able to see the plane was at about 33,000 feet doing about 468 knots, planned for 480 but probably a little head wind, no issue there. out of amsterdam here and flying across ukraine. flight aware lost contact with ...

Investigators get access to that site in? >> well, its critical they get there as soon as possible. for a couple reasons. one is for the investigation. but most importantly, for the humanitarian side, for the recovery of victims. and i have to tell you, anderson, the idea that the ukrainians are going to put the stake on this that theyre going to investigate this accident is going to be unacceptable. to a large part of the world. there has to be an independent impartial investigation for this tr...