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Well be talking about the missile that brought down flight 17. what we know about what it might have been capable of doing and the flight path, and how many other planes, there were american planes, in this area. we have those pictures to show you on radar. how many planes were around when this happened. a pretty shocking picture. our other breaking story israel launching a major ground offensive into gaza. thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. and thank you for your bravery. thank you c...

Somewhere over ukraine. what does that tell you? >> well, as youve been talking about, john, here the thing theyre worried the most about here, the initial source of concern would be the volatile region which that airplane was flying into. now, of course, that particular flight path and the way that aircraft would have behaved on a radar screen would lead any air traffic controller, and for that matter any military personnel who was manning some sort of ground-to-air missile would see that obvio...

Flight path for any reason they want. they are the captain of the ship. the decisions are theirs. the decisions are not made by air traffic control or anyone else much the captain makes the decision. so heres what happened. on the ground there in the east of ukraine and in the west of russia, there is a war going on because people on the ukraine side of the border have been shooting aircraft from the sky at altitude, meaning at 20, 30, thousand feet, sheeting them out of the sky and theyre crash...

What happened. i can tell you flightaware, the flight trafficking website that tracks all jets in the air at all times, has updated this flight path and it now indicates that the jet actually came down much closer to the russian border than previously stated. there are a number of reasons this could have happened and the most likely according to those who are watching this is that whenever it was struck or whatever happened, there was a glide path that happened after the strike that made it land...

Communication between our intelligence services and other governments that will allow commercial airliners to fly through what would be a dangerous route? >> of course. and certainly the cia, nsa and military intelligence are all blued in to the ukrainian government directly, im sure were talking to the u.s. embassy, moscow, what happened, whats your storyline? we should know right away, was it a missile launch from inside eastern ukraine or did it come out of the russian federation. im assuming...

This plane took. chad, what are you learning? >> not the normal flight that this usually takes. we talked to miles obrien, and we can go ahead and talk to richard quest about this. the lines on the map. thats the highway. those are the roads that the plane can take. and we have l-980. thats the plane on that one. typically, though, down here around n-991, or even n-190, just like the highways that you have in america on any roadway, you get numbers. you get names. what happened with this plane i...

Aircraft through that airspace. >> just since wednesday, several other jets have been shot down. arguably by these separatists. there was sort of a record of this happening over the last five days and now you have a situation on a thursday where this is happening yet again. im wondering from a pilot -- does a pilot make a personal decision to change flight path? does that ever happen? >> we look at weather and we look at notes before hand. generally the dispatch office will set up the flight pla...

That buildup of several months ago it went down, well, now its back. and now the u.s. trying to figure out exactly what has transpired here. >> barbara, i want to follow up on this point in just a second. hang on. i do want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, bring you up to speed on the information we have right now. malaysia airlines flight mh17 reported missing. somewhere between amsterdam and kuala lumpur. that was the flight path. we are told the flat, the last...

If this was the russians, i would hope they would have easily detected a known flight path, iff, an identification, friend or foe. its hard to imagine the russian military would have done it. so the conclusion is, if its a shootdown, then its more likely the -- very sophisticated equipment the russians are pushing across that border, that would have targeted and brought down by mistake a commercial airliner. finally comment, nobody in his right mind should be flying commercial aircraft in that p...

This was all about. and then youve got to say, why wasnt there any warnings? >> lets bring in rick francona here. air force, colonel, you know about planes, about flights. tell me what vistrikes you here. >> well, why this particular aircraft? if you look at that display which is the transponders coming off all these aircraft, why that particular flight? why was that one singled out? it doesnt particularly present any kind of a threat. 32,000 feet, if thats what the altitude was, theres only one...