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Intelligence and military background and your intelligence background as well on capitol hill before that, what do you make of this information that u.s. intelligence believes it was a missile that took out that commercial airliner? >> andrea, the very same intelligence systems that would detect irans ballistic missile launches against u.s. forces in iraq may well have also picked up iranian anti-aircraft activity on that same night. and i think its important to distinguish, i dont believe what ...

Local team and reached nearly 8,000 feet in what appeared to be a normal ascent. but within two minutes it suddenly disappeared from radar. the plane then crashed into fields about ten miles from tehrans airport. 176 people on board all killed. they included 82 iranians, 63 canadians, most of the passengers were scheduled to transfer in kiev to a flight that would go on to toronto and canada. the associated press reports that many of the passengers who were killed were believed to be internation...

Lets also recognize this is a terrific pool of partners that stood with us in afghanistan. ill close by saying i wrote 2100 letters of condolence to young men and women killed in afghanistan under my command. 900 went to european families. >> wow. thats important. admiral, were going to leave it there. thank you for your kind words and always your great insights. i appreciate it. >> you bet. right now, lets turn, we have to follow-up on the deadly plane crash in iran that took place just a day...

Off automatically as you suggest. i think what this all points up to, andrea, is that during the fog of war, when theres an exchange of fire, terrible things can unfold. and what happened here is that we came to the brink of a military conflict and i dont believe were out of the woods yet because iran will turn to its surrogates and proxies, its terrorist cells, its cyberattacks, and we remain at a very dangerous moment here. >> and, tom donilon, if irans response as has been reported was a rela...

Whatever happened with this plane, and we now believe it was in fact a missile strike, immediately caused the plane to go dark, to go back at 7900 feet, two minutes into the flight. so it was instant. it was catastrophic and simply engine failures dont cause that kind of a catastrophic emergency. >> just to repeat, unlike the twa horrible crash and other crashes in the past, the redundancies in these modern planes prevent exactly that kind of catastrophic crash. >> youre absolutely right. these ...

Kilometres from tehran airport. shoes, a dress, a christmas toy, litter the floor. and the remains of the boeing 737—800 aircraft. nobody could have survived this. at the planes final destination, kyiv, questions about what caused the crash are already being asked. the timing of this crash is certainly extraordinary. last night, iran fired ballistic missiles at military bases inside iraq. and this morning, iranian state media was keen to stress that this crash wasnt linked and put it down to a...

Transport cons put this device. devastation cannot minutes after take—off. later devastation cannot minutes after ta ke—off. later bodies devastation cannot minutes after take—off. later bodies on the flight we re take—off. later bodies on the flight were taken away. there were no survivors. belongings and parts of the plane strewn across the crash site. most of those killed were iranian or canadian. three british nationals were on board. its an emotional press conference, the airlines t...

Report from kyiv. if there is ever a normal situation a ball of fire, it came down just a few minutes with an air crash investigation, after an early—morning take—off. there would be a collaborative on board, 176 passengers and crew, effort. the airline has the first most of them iranians and canadians. say on where the black box is. they among the other nationalities, are the voice data recorders. to three from the united kingdom. this is the crash site, a few which jurisdiction are the voi...

An investigation has begun after a ukrainian passenger plane, carrying 176 people, crashed shortly after take—off in iran. there were no survivors. three british people were on board the boeing airliner — the majority of passengers were from iran and canada. several airlines have now said they will avoid iranian airspace. heres our transport correspondent tom burridge. devastation minutes after take—off. later, the bodies of those on the ukrainian airlines flight were taken away. there wer...

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