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Throughout their flight to get very close and do tremendous damage. and look at this last number. the speed, 2,684 miles per hour. top speed for these missiles. that makes shem supersonic. somewhere around more than three times the speed of sound. by comparison, a passenger jet like this would be traveling, 500, 600 miles an hour. what that means is even if you fired one of these from 30 miles away, in about 40 seconds, it would be on that plane. so fast that people on board including the crew likely could never see it will coming before they were hit. we don't know the where they were fired f...

Ukrainian officials. but basically this is a guess by them. they're not saying at this point that they have radar that has confirmed that this is a buk system. they are saying simply this is the only kind of system that could have brought down a plane at this altitude, correct? >> i'm told, anderson, that it is not just a guess, that this assessment is coming from the ukrainian military. now, obviously part of that is an assessment based on the capability of the missile. but they have not told me -- i do not know if they have missile-tracking data, but it is at least their belief that this is ...

Can imagine what that conversation was like even as the early word was that a plane was down. they didn't know much more about it. a plane was down on the eastern ukraine side of the border and it could have been an accident, could have been pilot error. we don't know what might have intervened but if it were shot down, it could have been any one of three parties because all three actually have access to that same weapon system, the aging soviet weapon system that's been described, at least by one or more eyewitnesss, the buk system. we don't know if that's what happened but there's been signi...

Tonight. jennifer griffin has a look at what the downed aircraft means for the international stage. >> reporter: senior u.s. intelligence officials confirm late today that malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot down by a sophisticated russian-made surface-to-air missile known as a buk system that can fire into the air up to 72,000 feet. although u.s. officials are still trying to determine from where the missile was launched, many in washington are already pointing fingers at the russians. one senior defense official told fox news, quote, if this was done by the separatists, it was done with rus...

Previously? >> that's right. not only bragged about it but shown pictures of it in their possession and that the russian television had done reports on this as they captured this weapons system. another indicator, anderson, as the ukrainian government makes this conclusion about this being the system that took the plane down is just what i told you earlier when we spoke a short time ago, that they are also looking at evidence that the plane came apart at altitude which would, from their perspective, and our experts' perspective, indicate the possibility of a missile strike at least. so i think...