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Happened. It seems dubious that the Russian Military, in other words, would want to take down a major passenger plane. Certainly with not the intent of taking it down. Again, we simply dont know who brought this down. Im also here with lieu dtenant colonel rick francona. Just in terms of kants, we have not seen separatists heretofor, they have brought down at least one transport plane, but they were not flying at 33,000 feet. Yeah, this would require, as we were talking about, a more sophisticat...

>> reporter: well, this is really incredible, bianna, because four people were on board including a 2-month-old baby, all survived, were learning from local media the pilots condition has been upgraded and that pilot being heralded as a hero because the helicopter came crashing down essentially right in front of a church. and the drexel hill neighborhood in philadelphia. that patient, that 2-month-old baby was being transferred from chambersburg, pennsylvania, to the childrens hospital of philad...

It was just a huge, huge crash. then sort of everything goes quiet if youre trying to figure out how, what the situation is, if anyone is hurt. make sure you keep the heads stable. it was every one at their best trying to help these ladies. >> well, again, thank you for what you did to try to help them and im glad that youre okay and im sure youre just still processing all of this. wow. wade, thank you so much. >> absolutely. >> cnn aviation analyst miles o brien joins me now. youre a pilot your...

Doctors were playing golf there. thanks so much. >> amazing the plane is just behind paul. it shows how close it really was. >> in his own neighborhood. >> lets bring in miles obrien. youre a pilot yourself. you take us into the cockpit and what harrison ford may have been up against and amount of time he had to make the decisions and what he had to do so quickly. >> everything is split second. he didnt have a lot of altitude. he had no power. as it happens when you take off from santa monica ai...

Horrific example of that. >> miles obrien is joining us from d.c. on the phone. again, miles, i mean, you know this flight path well. youre a pilot yourself. and just talk about a little bit about what is happening now behind the scenes not only with malaysian airlines but all the various countries in the region in terms of dealing with the family members of those on board this flight. >> is that for miles? >> yeah, miles, youre on the air. >> okay. yeah, my apologies. what i can tell you is thi...

Hour, french provided satellite, nothing confirmed yet, satellite indications of possible debris. rick, in light of your experience on airplane recovery and your own book "finding malia" and significance of the satellite data, where would you place the progress of the search now? >> we dont have you there, sorry. we dont have you, rick. why dont i make that to kip darby, youre a pilot yourself, the new information, how much does it help us with assets here? >> i agree theres nothing to indicate ...

Transparent. >> chuck hagel came out today and encouraged malaysia to tell us what they know when they know it. >> one of the reasons that they couldnt tell what the airplane was doing is that the air traffic control radar doesnt reach as far as where that airplane was at the time. and its very much -- they were in radio contact, but it doesnt mean that the radar saw everything that was going on. but also, the 45,000 feet issue that weve been talking about for a week here, to my knowledge, the m...

Transparent. >> chuck hagel came out today and encouraged malaysia to tell us what they know when they know it. >> one of the reasons that they couldnt tell what the airplane was doing is that the air traffic control radar doesnt reach as far as where that airplane was at the time. and its very much -- they were in radio contact, but it doesnt mean that the radar saw everything that was going on. but also, the 45,000 feet issue that weve been talking about for a week here, to my knowledge, the m...

As a weapon. megyn: jon, you of course are a pilot yourself. you know, as a nonaviation expert, ill tell you that it just looked a bit suspicious to have a plane hit the side of a building, the second floor, ones layman opinion would be if a plane were in trouble it would try to find a place other than a crowded office building or street to try to land it but thats complete speculation. as a pilot looking at this scene, does it raise any red flags for you? >> you know, again, this kind of thing ...

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