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 dont know who brought this down. Im 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 youre locked onto the target, it goes to that target. And if it veers off that target and is no longer being guided, they selfdestruct. But when youre targeting a plane at that altitude, are you
clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is . No, its a return on your radar. Right. It will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. You may have other sensors
parts of the black sea, this eastern part of ukraine was not on the prohibition list for flying over. now, in the last hour, we ve heard from lieu tlufthansa and turkish. this is an old picture from flight radar. if you look at flight radar 24 thousand there s still aircraft flying there. there s still aircraft there s still aircraft flying there. if we were to show a picture of flight radar 24 over that area now, you were just showing yeah, i can t get it on my phone right now, but yeah, we just took a look at the live radar, there are still aircraft operating in this area. civilian aircraft. yes. and the pilots i ve been speaking to this morning still say one of my colleagues or one of my friends flew from