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Because they think they've made a kill of a fighter plane only to learn that it was a civilian airline. >> that's the conflict here. in '83, there were spy planes that had been in the area, the russians clearly thought they were going after a spy plane. it being looks, as we were talking in the first segment, it being looks right now like you have the history of all of these military cargo planes being shot down in the last few months in ukraine, they probably thought they were getting another one of those. >> you would think after 25 years of technological development we'd have a better handl...

This is a malaysian airliner from amsterdam to kuala lumpur which went down over eastern ukraine. 295 people on board. 280 passengers. 15 crew members. this as the crisis with ukraine has been heating up. there have been a number of incidents between ukraine and the separatists as an attempted cease-fire accepted by ukrainian officials, by kiev, failed. and there have been a number of incidents. john cox, the fighter plane that was allegedly shot down only last night, according to ukrainian officials. there have been a number of air incidents. it seems as though things have been on a hair trig...

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And if it has been shot down by russia, one wonders what is next and what we hear from our own government on this? jon: reminders what happened to the korean airlines flight back in the early 1980s, korean air 007, strayed, for a variety of reasons into russian airspace and shot down by a russian fighter plane. there is discussion here that this was shot down by a missile from the ground. of course, no way to know who may have been operating that missile, if in fact that is what happened. let's bring into the conversation, robert mark. a commercial airline pilot. publisher of jetchina.com. may...

>> well, i'm not good with statistics but i'm sure the probabilities are, the numbers are very, very high. i mean, honestly most of us didn't think that malaysia airlines was going to survive after the mh370 situation but of course depending upon what caused this aircraft to come down, you know, it is going to change, it's a game-changer as somebody said earlier. but again, i think the issue is, who sent the airplane through that airspace? and why in the world did the captain take that route into such a hot piece of airspace? i can't understand that. jon: as our jennifer griffin was telling us...