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That signals them as not related to managemeilitary. >> the excuse of shooting one out of the sky, if you are a terrorist you can have a plane and disguise it as a civilian airliner. there were procedures in place, a frequency where if you suspected a plane is alien that you can check with it and make them identify themselves. there are procedures that say you have to scramble jets before you do anything like shoot the plane down, fly up alongside, waggle your wing withes to indicate you are worried about who they are. all of these procedures but the bottom line you just listed those incidents...

Typicalically in a united states-built plane is involved in an accident the ntsb will go to to assist but this is a boeing 777 and this is military action and takes it to a whole different level. as for any role they would play, if they are looking for the black boxes and if the black boxes are recovered you wonder what value is there of the black boxes? we already know the plane was shot down. the black boxes will probably only tell you the speed and the heading at the time of the explosion and maybe capture cockpit discussions between the pilots in which they perhaps were talking to each oth...

I'm jake tapper. we're continuing our coverage of flight 17 both the united states and ukraine have accused russia of supplying rebels in eastern ukraine with the type of weaponry that could have been used to bring the plane down, but president obama himself stopped short of putting the blame on russian president vladimir putin. let's bring in the ukrainian ambassador to the united states. thank you so much for being here. our deepest condolences on what's happening in your country independent of this plane crash. i want to ask you about some of the wilder theories being put out there by russi...

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...

That but many reports out of the area saying it was shot down. to the point about what kind of hardware would shoot this plane down, if possible, absolutely right. your previous guest was saying a shoulder fired missile couldn't do it. that's right. this plane, according to flight tracker.com was at 33,000 feet on the transit route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. to hit a plane at 33,000 feet, you need one of those massive missiles that you see on the back of a trailer that may have been pulled through red square. and, in fact, early reports from the ukrainians suggested that a buk missile, b-...