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Thank you so much for being with us. so, john, we know the crash occurred about 20 minutes after take off from jakarta, and the boeing 737 only climbed to an altitude of out 5,200 feet. from what you have been able t piece together, what do you think may have happened here? >> you know, its way too soon to tell. obviously these investigations take months, if not years, depending on how investigators -- what information investigators have at their disposal. getting the black boxes, examining de...

All right. well, the russians are not happy about this, this plane going down. it was one of their migs and it was shot down by the turks and the turks are saying well, it invaded our space. the russians are saying, no it was over syria, you had to right to do this. and now we have a bit of an international incident. the russians are indicating theyll skip out on a global forum that included the turks. jenner j jennifer griffin is trying to piece this together. its a nightmare. >> absolutely, ne...

Turks are talking to each other and find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation. >> russian president putin taking a very different tone. >> naturally our military purr seeing a heroic battle against terrorism sacrificing themselves and their lives. todays loss for us was like stab in the back delivered by the accomplices of terrorists. >> national security correspondent live for us at the pentagon. do we know for sure that the russian war plane violated...

Avoid it. were joined by the cnn aviation analyst and former managing director of federal aviation administration safety board. the search has been halted except for some of these ships that were already in the area they have stopped, they have those large bright lights. might be able to see something while they are there. but is it your concern, are you worried that we might be losing some valuable time in locating this plane and potentially those passengers on board? >> well, every hour does c...

Conclusions to the data that theyre analyzing at the moment. i dont think were quite there yet. i still think even the experts, because of the the nature of this mystery, because this is unprecedented in avs history, theyll be reticent to release this information because were all still trying to figure this out. were 45 days plus on this and were still no closer to identifying where the wreckage is. its a big mystery. experts would be nervous in releasing that information when they are using the...

Oh, gee, theyre in the same building, theyre on different floors. how do they usually relay the information? they pick up the phone or walk down the hall or turn around and say hey, joe, we have a missing plane. i think they deserve a fair amount of criticism. >> maybe angus houston will say they have better information about the black boxes. chances are he will say we have come to the conclusion that the pingers, the batteries have run out and now we start a different phase of the investigation...

Glad that jeff did bring this up. i mean, i dont agree. i think its in the ocean. but i like that jeff brought this up, because its very clear we have some big holes and problems, and a bit of a cover-up over the malaysian radar and the indonesian radar. now, weve heard dis -- disconcerting disconnects between civilian radar coverage, control and military in malaysian, and just recently they said we tracked the plane -- we did see the plane head over the malacca straits, and the indonesian radar...

Flight 370 went down, the families of the 239 people on board still do not have answers about why the boeing 777 disappeared. and their search for answers is likely going to remain stalled unless the flight data and voice recorders are found and analyzed. back to you. >> unbelievable. peter, thank you. >> think about it, that a whale sound could be mimicking this 37 kilohertz sound. >> it could be a beluga as tucker is doing, or an orca. >> its a distress call, whatever. >> or something used in ...

Its about communicating where you have looked. communicating anything that might look slightly suspicious. its about communicating where the currents are. so if youve got something on the ocean floor, you then communicate that to the air search with algorithms working where the currents are and tracking to where the impact point could have been. but ashleigh, there no smoke out fire. i dont think youre going to find black boxes without finding something, whether it be a life jacket, as ghastly a...

Lot of guess work involved. the speed estimate that theyve used is based on basically the last speed that they recorded using primary radar tracks. pretty much very close to malaysia, essentially. and that put them in the -- into the thinking that it was at or about, we believe, 12,000 feet. and that the red line speed for that is about 400 knots. so heres the question. was it flown in deliberately? that could be one speed. or was it on autopilot and the engine starved. did it pitch up violently...