Page 27 - Plane Down News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

From prorussian separatists leaders at the time that the plane went down claiming credit for shooting a plane down which they thought was a ukrainian military transport. >> and intercepted communications that they talked about several hours ago. we'll hear more perhaps from u.s. intelligence on whether they intercepted communications as well. >> someone who lost several friends on the flight, her thoughts and she wants to tell us about some of those on board the aircraft, what we know now as our coverage tonights as we will be right back. ♪ i got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, ex...

Russia. there the u.s. have positive proof of this. our listening posts in japan had actually picked up conversations from the soviet intercepter plane which was trailing the civilian aircraft, picked up the conversations where the pilot asked permission to shoot this plane down, gets permission, we hear the military command call back and say, okay, let it go and the pilot saying, okay, mission accomplished. he shot the plane down. we had that evidence. now the question is, you reveal all of your assets, your listening posts in japan in this case. we made that information public right away bef...

>> it comes at a very dangerous time, a tense time for this region. the russian president, vladimir putin not saying it was the ukrainians that shot it down says the ukrainian government bears responsibility. explain that. >> reporter: yeah, he doesn't say they are responsible for bringing the plane down. he doesn't say that the separatists shot the plane down, either. he does say the ukrainian government, because it reengaged in hostilities with the pro-russian separatists is somehow responsible for what happened here. we also know this morning the organization for security corporation in eur...

One, he first wanted to make sure he had the facts. he's been communicating with the european heads of state. if putin is in control and this was the separatists that shot the plane down, the way that you apply pressure is with the additional sanctions with european allies. that's how you strengthen it. that's what the president has been doing. i think he's handling it in a very intelligent manner in which you can force putin's hand. the relationship between the russians and the european nation beforehand because of economics has been such that the united states could apply sanctions. that's n...

Notice to airmen and the prohibition you mentioned earlier prohibiting u.s. airliners to fly over crime a and that portion of the black sea in which we saw the russians and ukrainians go toe to toe a month ago. they do not fly over this region, but we have seen throughout the day now foreign carriers, whether they are lufthanza or british airways or several russian carriers, emirates air, a variety of airlines skirting it saying they will no longer use it as a transit route to get from europe to, say, asia. it's a very common route to go from amsterdam to frankfurt or to london, but tonight th...