kinds of vehicles you see toed through red square. there s one report out there that there is video showing one of the vehicles already high tailing ining out of the area toward russia. it s unconfirmed by nbc news. that would be another piece of the clue as to what possibly might have brought the plane down and who might be responsible for it. and, tom, you know, just thinking out of my 30-years i covered wars. you see sometimes guys with sam 7, sam 6, the surface to air missiles you put on the shoulder and you shoot with a sight. this is far different. you need some equipment, you need radar, you need communications, this is not one-man band thing. that s absolutely right. keep in mind, this probably, this particular launcher would not have been integrated into a sophisticated military radar system that would have the ability to differentiate between a commercial aircraft and a military aircraft. unlike, for example, if this had
well, people might be surprised to know after september 11, 2001, that pretty much every day some plane strays off course. people go astray. it s private planes get lost, if you will. they put the wrong frequency in and people can t reach them. it happens all of the time. and we don t very rarely do we or other nations scramble jets, because most of the time it s just somebody literally lost in the hertz or messing up. well, scrambling jets is one thing, jeff, but this seems to be one of the biggest missed opportunities in this whole mystery. which is why didn t malaysia first act when they saw this actual radar blip tracking across their screen. why didn t thailand act when they saw this blip tracking across their screen. and then, of course, the whole question of indonesia. we don t know what they saw or didn t see, because they re not telling anybody. but they certainly didn t take action if they did see something. no matter where the plane went, there are at least four coun
ditching. but it s pretty hard to ditch in the water at night. so i can t i m not exactly sure at that time after that much flying if they were in daylight conditions or darkness. that would be a key thing. no question. miles, let me bring another question from a viewer. this one asks, if military radar was picking up a plane without a transponder, why didn t it raise any flags to deploy help? so that that famous malaysian radar data that saw a plane going across there but not identifying itself? or why weren t fighters scrambled. there s a lot of questions there. i think the various governments that might have picked up this primary target, meaning no transponder, on a military radar system, and then there was no response, i think they re a little reluctant to talk about that as you can imagine. it might, for one thing, tell the world about some exploitable holes in their system. or, perhaps, a lack of responsiveness in their air defenses. and that s probably why we re not getti
trail of destruction caused by a mile-long tether that knocked out power to thousands of homes. we lost power for probably, i don t know, four hours, something, that neighborhood. reporter: after three hours in the air, blimp finally came to rest in anthony township, pennsylvania. the meal yum filled military balloon is called a jlens. it s usually moored in maryland and watches the skies from 10,000 feet in the air in this is part of a military radar system that s supposed to detect cruise missiles, fast-flying, low-flying cruise missiles probably from russian aircraft. reporter: officials don t know why the balloon broke loose. an investigation is under way. dan schenamen, nbc news. breaking news overnight, a shark attack has injured a 10-year-old boy. he was reportedly body boarding about 30 feet from the beach on the west coast of oahu when i was bitten in the thigh. video shows first responders transporting the boy to queens medical center in serious condition. this is t