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the fact that russia is saying now it will not go along anymore with any inspections on a full withdrawal, but the significance of that and the fact that antony blinken the secretary of state said it is deeply unfortunate in any event and irresponsible said the u.s. will talk to russia about this at any point regardless of what is happening on the world stage with russia and ukraine. that is how critical the u.s. believes this is. >> absolutely critical. look, the only way that the nuc...

cnns pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles obrien joins me now. pete, lets start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. >> reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near...

Like can you give us some sense of how long it would take if those actually ended up in the country for their air force, their version of the air force, to train and to be competent on them? >> well, just dont fly an f-16. you fight an f-16 in concert with ground activity, ground maneuver intelligence, air engagements, et cetera. its not just flying an aircast. its fighting that aircraft effectively. this a minimal year-long type of training environment. what you want -- look, the ukrainian air ...

Licensed, because they now clearly would have his identification, is it a student pilot, what could this person have -- how could this person have learned how to fly this plane. >> the sad tooth is we dont know that much yet. although were digging into it. because the stolen airplane, the registration goes back to a company in nearby tupelo. so well try to figure out more about the pilot. the real question here is that how they were, of course, as myles mentioned, how they were able to get on th...

Last transmission, all right, good night. this would suggest a plan was under way to deliberately divert the plane when the words were spoken. this is what i want you to look at. this is what we know. 1:07 a.m., acars makes the last transmission. 1:19 a.m., all right, good night radioed from the pock pit. the last verbal communication. 1:21 a.m. the transponder was switched off or stopped working and at 1:37 and this is the key 30-minute window, the acars system fails to make planned contact her...