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the fact that russia is saying now it will not go along anymore with any inspections on a full withdrawal, but the significance of that and the fact that antony blinken the secretary of state said it is deeply unfortunate in any event and irresponsible said the u.s. will talk to russia about this at any point regardless of what is happening on the world stage with russia and ukraine. that is how critical the u.s. believes this is. >> absolutely critical. look, the only way that the nuclear threat is going to cool down in any way is if you look at past history where the united states ...

cnn's pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles o'brien joins me now. pete, let's start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. >> reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near ashland, mississippi. it flew around the area for about five hours. police in tupelo say they in...

Like can you give us some sense of how long it would take if those actually ended up in the country for their air force, their version of the air force, to train and to be competent on them? >> well, just don't fly an f-16. you fight an f-16 in concert with ground activity, ground maneuver intelligence, air engagements, et cetera. it's not just flying an aircast. it's fighting that aircraft effectively. this a minimal year-long type of training environment. what you want -- look, the ukrainian air force has some comp tenty is in a pock pit like that. you could get them up to the ability to fly...

Licensed, because they now clearly would have his identification, is it a student pilot, what could this person have -- how could this person have learned how to fly this plane. >> the sad tooth is we don't know that much yet. although we're digging into it. because the stolen airplane, the registration goes back to a company in nearby tupelo. so we'll try to figure out more about the pilot. the real question here is that how they were, of course, as myles mentioned, how they were able to get on the ramp and get into the airplane and get into an airplane this size and start it. some of these h...

Last transmission, all right, good night. this would suggest a plan was under way to deliberately divert the plane when the words were spoken. this is what i want you to look at. this is what we know. 1:07 a.m., acars makes the last transmission. 1:19 a.m., all right, good night radioed from the pock pit. the last verbal communication. 1:21 a.m. the transponder was switched off or stopped working and at 1:37 and this is the key 30-minute window, the acars system fails to make planned contact here leading some to think the plane may have gone down. but no because you see at the bottom, 2:15 in ...