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Wed been able to see out the window occasionally a fighter aircraft above or below us, as we came into the national capital area two f-16s took up station at wing tip of air force one. a stirring site. giant bird and f-16s and literally you could make out what the pilots features are. i took a picture which is in the book of the plane, and then you realized it was pretty sobering, you realized they were not there for display. this was the last desperate defense of air force one, if something cam...

We came into the national capital area two f-16s took up station at wing tip of air force one. a stirring site. giant bird and f-16s and literally you could make out what the pilots features are. i took a picture which is in the book of the plane, and then you realized it was pretty sobering, you realized they were not there for display. this was the last desperate defense of air force one, if something came towards the aircraft and couldnt bring it down further away, these guys were supposed to...

During the day when been able to see out the window occasionally fighter aircraft above or below. as we came into the national capital two f-16s took up station at the wing tip of air force one, giant bird upcoming f-16s, you can make out what the pilots features are. i took a picture, which is in the book, of the plane. then you realized i was sobering, they were not there for display. this was the last disparate defense of air force one. if something came towards the aircraft and they couldnt ...

The russian fighter jet pulls up in that tiny space between the f-16 and wing tip of this larger russian plane. the russian jet squeezes in between the two of them. the reason the russian fighter jet, you can see it at one point in this tape tilting its wings, thats apparently to show the f-16 that it is armed with air-to-air missiles. see that tilt right there? thats him showing off his missiles underneath his left wing. that su-27 is apparently armed with the kind of missiles that fighter jets...

As you can see, that f-16 is very close to the russian defense ministers plane. but then look at this. another plane appears, even closer. similar size, but a different shape to the f-16 out there. thats a russian su-27 fighter. thats the same kind of russian fighter that got to within five feet of that big american surveillance plane just a couple of days ago, also over the baltic sea. so this is this remarkable scene. you can see shot from the window of the larger russian aircraft. the russian...

Puzzle is helpful, but we really need to find out where the aircraft wreckage is and i dont think it moves that ball forward finding the actual wreckage. thats what we really need. what brought the plane down. this doesnt bring us much closer to that given the length of time. >> we have the graphic and wing tip of the boeing triple seven in the bottom of the screen. you can see the flapperon that apparently washed up on the beach in the islands off of africa. and the part number is stencilled in...

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That means the planes have to go very low and the admiral mentions terrain. there is no terrain. there is no terrain. its up in the air. not like the atlantic ocean where you have islands and two continents and things like that. you are heading toward antarctica there, right? >> well, thats facially right, bill. because when you are flying, you have to turn when do you search patterns. so if you want to balance getting low so you can see initially any floating debris but then when you turn, on t...

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