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Sky like that. when you compare it to a plane like this, which is flying along at maybe around, let's say 600 miles an hour, you see that not only could a missile like that be guided in, because it is guided the whole way, to a plane like this, but it could come in so quickly, truly nobody on board, including the crew, might have any idea it's coming. the truth is, if this is what happened, this plane could have been hit and nobody on board would have the slightest idea it was headed their way. and we know from the map we showed earlier it is happening in a region over here, this highly contes...

This incident in ukraine. although we have no shortage of big stories to talk about worldwide. is there evidence that the united states government finds credible that pro-russian separatists shot down this plane? >> the answer from the united states government perspective is no. they're saying they don't have conclusive evidence yet from the ukrainian government perspective, i've been speaking to officials there, they say they have evidence. i'll give you what they give. one is that they believe that it was a russian buk so-called buk system used to shoot down this plane in part because separa...

Before on the air. this is a truck-mounted missile system. they believe that this was a system used to take this plane down, that it occurred at 10,000 meters, about 33,000 feet. they also make the point that a couple of weeks ago, russian separatists claimed and bragged to have captured such a buk missile system inside eastern ukraine. in fact, at a ukrainian base and that there were pictures on russian television of this captured buk missile launcher. and officials also telling me there's a picture up on the screen right now. >> we're showing our viewers. this is the buk system that you're t...

I want to go first to our jim sciutto. the plane was reportedly shot down by pro-russian separatists on monday. that was at 21,000 feet. this malaysian jet at some 32,000 feet. are we any clearer on who may have shot the plane down? having some problems getting jim. we'll continue to check in. our richard quest is here. again, at this stage, we still don't know exactly who fired this missile, what would the intent of this missile be, this buk system, which is a russian missile system seems to have been what a lot of people in the pentagon are certainly focusing on at this point? >> if today's ...

Welcome back to "hardball." more now on the downed malaysian flight and what caused it. we are getting closer to that now. the united states believes it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile called s.a.m.s. they haven't yet determined who fired the missile exactly. a launcher similar to the buk system has been seen by some of the reporters in separatist-held areas of eastern ukraine. the separatists have them and saw them this week. it has the capability of hitting a target up to 72,000 feet. that's 12 miles. by the way, the 777 plane was thought to be flying at 33,000, well within range. ...