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That is the unanswered question and a question that won't be resolved until the plane is located. perhaps, you know if there were any survivors that they could be talked to if that is what the families are hoping for right now. >> let me go to you. as an experienced pilot we don't want to make any assumptions. this could be similar to the tragedy that we saw with air france flight 447, flying from brazil to paris. also an airbus plane and a plane flying through a tough thunderstorm. it is a plane that basically got -- too fast or too slow.

Subjected to torture and abuse coughed up exactly the information because of those -- because of those tactics that saved lives. there was no ticking time bomb scenario ever. >> i guess, to the counterpoint from the cia standpoint would be, that's what the senate report says. they say we did get information from it valuable. we can't say if we couldn't have gotten that information from other sources but they would say, consider the context, consider the threat that this country faced. what happened on 9/11 and years after that, we all thinking we don't want another plane flying in another buil...

Scene. it is just a crime scene, a crash scene. what it is not right now is the scene of an investigation. >> we've been hearing descriptions for quite a while. wreckage. kiev and the rebels blame one another for downing the airline he. the rebels say it is the government's fault that international team can't reach the wreckage. >> translator: we couldn't and we didn't want to shoot it down. we have no anti-aircraft womenry that would allow to us shoot down a plane flying at an altitude of 10,600 meters. our anti-aircraft weaponry only shoots up to 6,000. because of this, the ukrainian air for...

Together, intelligence agencies, that it was likely to have been, though not yet confirmed a russian supplied weapons system and once you have confirmed that, you can be sure the russian intelligence services put together a chronology and timeline and briefed president putin who also probably at this hour knows exactly who was responsible for firing the missile. >> richard, let's talk about flights over this area. faa said don't fly over crimea region back in april when this conflict really began. but this was a plane flying at 33,000 feet. did anyone expect that a plane at that level could be...

>> the soviet statements have totally failed to explain with how or why this tragedy occurred. >> reporter: five years later a plane flying from alaska to seoul. one missile slammed into it killing all 269 on board. among them? georgia congressman larry mcdonald. for days, russians wouldn't acknowledge the crash and, later, denied they shot it down deliberately. a claim debunked by ambassador jean kirkpatrick when she shared this with the united nations. years later, the russian pilot of the plane that downed flight 007 said he knew it was a civilian plane but believed it was on a spy mission....