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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 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...

Good afternoon, i'm anderson cooper. we are following breaking news right now. the malaysian airlines flight, a boeing 777, has crashed near the border between ukraine and russia. this is graphic video, we want to warn you, showing the aftermath of this crash. these are images we are just starting to get in. we are now getting new pictures of the moment the plane itself crashed in a fiery explosion off on the horizon in this video. malaysian airlines confirming that they lost contact with flight mh17. there you see the impact, the fireball, flames, the presence of fuel obviously still there in...

Of the information that you have heard thus far? >> thus far, we really don't know what caused it. but the fact is they were able to, quote, separatists, were able to shoot down an aircraft at 21,000 feet shows that there was capabilities. i do not want to leap to any conclusions because we, as you mentioned, it could be an explosion. it could be all kinds of reasons. but if it was a missile that took this plane down, then it has to be a very sophisticated weapons system. and the ukrainians do not have that capability. so if it is the case, we're going to have to act and act in the most string...

Information -- i mean, if it was, in fact, a missile strike, would there be information in the black box that that could kind of illuminate that, that could give you information? >> there could be, depending on how the missile detonated and how the plane came apart. but it also could have been, as it was in twa, both the voice recorder and the data recorder ended in a nanosecond. and there was only the briefest sound on the voice recorder. but a voice analysis, a sound analysis of that showed that it was a certain kind of explosion. it was not similar to say the lockerbie explosion. it was a l...

Although they have improved lately. whether they would have the capabilities of monitoring that area? >> the ukrainian armed forces would be able to detect the radars. that's very easy to do. >> they should be able to, whether one believes them or not, but they should be able to identify where this missile was fired from? >> they should not only be able to do that, what kind of radar it was, there would be multiple radar signals. there would be a search radar. there would be an acquisition radar, a guidance radar. so they should be able to determine all that. if they have that information, tha...