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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. ....
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 the fuselage as richard quest noted a short time ago. this is a plane which would have been loaded up with fuel because of the long flight between amsterdam where the plane took off, was heading toward kuala lumpur in malaysia. a plane carrying 295 people, 280 ....
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 stringent fashion including real sanctions, including giving the ukrainians the ability to defend ....
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 lower or explosion which indicated that it was a fuel air explosion. so there is a, say, a wealth of material and information in the uk and in the united states that ....
That aircraft strayed into soviet airspace and a horrible mistake was made which the soviet union later admitted. now, this is very early on, but the wreckage path will tell an awful lot. if an aircraft is, in fact, if it breaks up in midair, there s a big, wide swath of wreckage as we saw in the case of the lockerbie explosion, pan am 103. and if it was some other type of crash, some other sort of breakdown or mechanical situation, it might be a very different kind of wreckage field much more concentrated. it will be something that will become very evident very quickly, i think. something that will become evident and as barbara starr was pointing out, this is an area of the world right now where i think the u.s. has a lot of intelligence resources, a lot of eyes pointed right now over this area. i can t imagine it will be long before we find out what happened to this flight. and miles, you did bring up the korean airline flight, 007, that was famously shot down by the soviets someti ....