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United states now believes malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot down yesterday by a surface-to-air missile launched from ukrainian territory controlled by pro russian separatists. this makes it one of the most deadly civilian plane shoot downs in history but not the first. kate snow has more. >> reporter: it was september 1st, 1983, the height of the cold war. >> the united states today accused the soviet union of shooting down a korean airline jumbo jet. >> reporter: days later, president reagan ai addressed the nation. >> i'm coming to you tonight about the korean massacre, the attack of the...

Ignored. a soviet fighter pilot fired a missile and uttered words that would go down in history. the target is destroyed. everyone on board was killed. a tragedy that further inflamed tensions between the u.s. and ussr. >> we can see no excuse whate r whatsoever for this appalling act. >> reporter: when aplay plane is shot out of the sky there are rarely survivors. >> where they recovered the plane's recorders from previous incidents like this you hear the noise of the missile hitting the engine of the plane, milliseconds of a bam and nothing. that a quick it's over. >> we are following develo...

Airline to say, oh, our competitor will do it so we will do it. but there are other things. the original point about more sophisticated way to establish a plane's identity. there are public policy questions that will come out of this. >> certainly and more transparent way. aviation specialist, bob hagger. thank you for your time. >> more on the crash after the break. ♪ [music] defiance is in our bones.

That signals them as not related to managemeilitary. >> the excuse of shooting one out of the sky, if you are a terrorist you can have a plane and disguise it as a civilian airliner. there were procedures in place, a frequency where if you suspected a plane is alien that you can check with it and make them identify themselves. there are procedures that say you have to scramble jets before you do anything like shoot the plane down, fly up alongside, waggle your wing withes to indicate you are worried about who they are. all of these procedures but the bottom line you just listed those incidents...

Question is what does europe do? europeans have to take the lead on this. it was a flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur over european territory. there should be outrage in european capitals. >> european reluctance appears to be rooted in the continents dependence on russian energy. some in the u.s. congress argue economic reality is not enough of a reason to reduce the sentence. >> europeans were murdered in. this this is an international outrage and the european, if they aren't willing to do the right thing n light of this commercial plane going down and the innocent people murdered, i think...