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of nato shoots a plane out of the sky? is that protocol? it seems shocking. >> it's not protocol. the issue is the attitude of the aircraft, what that aircraft is trying to do is what's paramount. obviously, the turkish f-16, u.s.-built f-16 had a position and had an attitude on that aircraft that it was able to pick it up, paint it, identify it as something other than a friendly aircraft. there are additional steps you can go through before you would engage to shoot to kill. in a situation like this where you see an aircraft, warning shots are not to be used almost at all. it's part of the protocol. warning shots are if somebody is wandering through your air space, you can't communicate with them and you want to say i think you're offcourse, move away. in this particular case, they needed to be able to determine what the attitude of the russian aircraft was. it probably was not in an attack