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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...

Understand and explain independently of any comments or reactions off the cuff which arise from the emotion that we all feel. >> translator: given the crash site and the way in which the pieces are distributed, are we sure there was no in-flight explosion? do we have an idea how the aircraft was dismembered? >> translator: well, let me come back to this maybe. the radar path goes to this altitude, given a few hundred mete meters. weve exaggerated the difference to highlight it on the map. within...

Clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is? >> no, its a return on your radar. >> right. >> it will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. you may have other sensors that tell you what it is. but, you know, once youre getting radar returns and you engage the weapon, it just follows the radar path right up to the aircraft. >> so bob baers earlier point that this is all trackable, that we will soon know where this missile, if that, in fact, is what it was was fired from, do...

And theres no underwater pinging sound which sonar would pick up if in fact the sonar -- those listening to sonar were in the right region. we have no debris. no transmitters or pinging and no known last location. >> tom, lets talk about that transmitter. this plane broke contact very abruptly, what do you make of that? >> the experts are suggesting that that would suggest there was a sudden decompression or sudden emergency that incapacitated the crew. if you suddenly lose all contact, no radio...