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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...

>> reporter: well, this is really incredible, bianna, because four people were on board including a 2-month-old baby, all survived, we're learning from local media the pilot's condition has been upgraded and that pilot being heralded as a hero because the helicopter came crashing down essentially right in front of a church. and the drexel hill neighborhood in philadelphia. that patient, that 2-month-old baby was being transferred from chambersburg, pennsylvania, to the children's hospital of philadelphia. still not totally clear exactly what precipitated this incident. helicopters are pretty h...

It was just a huge, huge crash. then sort of everything goes quiet if you're trying to figure out how, what the situation is, if anyone is hurt. make sure you keep the heads stable. it was every one at their best trying to help these ladies. >> well, again, thank you for what you did to try to help them and i'm glad that you're okay and i'm sure you're just still processing all of this. wow. wade, thank you so much. >> absolutely. >> cnn aviation analyst miles o' brien joins me now. you're a pilot yourself. you have some background on the type of helicopter involved. he said he couldn't quite ...

Doctors were playing golf there. thanks so much. >> amazing the plane is just behind paul. it shows how close it really was. >> in his own neighborhood. >> let's bring in miles o'brien. you're a pilot yourself. you take us into the cockpit and what harrison ford may have been up against and amount of time he had to make the decisions and what he had to do so quickly. >> everything is split second. he didn't have a lot of altitude. he had no power. as it happens when you take off from santa monica airport as i have several times, you have to sidestep over and be over that golf course. the idea ...

Horrific example of that. >> miles o'brien is joining us from d.c. on the phone. again, miles, i mean, you know this flight path well. you're a pilot yourself. and just talk about a little bit about what is happening now behind the scenes not only with malaysian airlines but all the various countries in the region in terms of dealing with the family members of those on board this flight. >> is that for miles? >> yeah, miles, you're on the air. >> okay. yeah, my apologies. what i can tell you is this. a civilian airliner at flight levels generally is going to be flying down corridors in the sky...