good afternoon, i'm anderson cooper. we are following breaking news right now. the malaysian airlines flight, a boeing 777, has crashed near the border between ukraine and russia. this is graphic video, we want to warn you, showing the aftermath of this crash. these are images we are just starting to get in. we are now getting new pictures of the moment the plane itself crashed in a fiery explosion off on the horizon in this video. malaysian airlines confirming that they lost contact with flight mh17. there you see the impact, the fireball, flames, the presence of fuel obviously still there in the fuselage as richard quest noted a short time ago. this is a plane which would have been loaded up with fuel because of the long flight between amsterdam where the plane took off, was heading toward kuala lumpur in malaysia. a plane carrying 295 people, 280