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happened. it seems dubious that the russian military, in other words, would want to take down a major passenger plane. certainly with not the intent of taking it down. again, we simply don t know who brought this down. i m also here with lieu dtenant colonel rick francona. just in terms of kants, we have not seen separatists heretofor, they have brought down at least one transport plane, but they were not flying at 33,000 feet. yeah, this would require, as we were talking about, a more sophisticated system. talking about, you know, hitting it inadvertently, it would be very difficult for that to happen. generally once you re locked onto the target, it goes to that target. and if it veers off that target and is no longer being guided, they self-destruct. but when you re targeting a plane at that altitude, are you clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is? no, it s a return on your radar. right. it will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. ....
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 what you have here is the ukrainian government looking at a number of indicators here and saying they believe it was a buk missile system that was used to take this plane down. again, as you referenced and as we repeatedly referenced as we ve spoken, these are early conclusions as the clues are just coming in. and again, i m here with richard quest and lieutenant colonel rick francona. again, we ....