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Thank you so much for being with us. so, john, we know the crash occurred about 20 minutes after take off from jakarta, and the boeing 737 only climbed to an altitude of out 5,200 feet. from what you have been able t piece together, what do you think may have happened here? >> you know, it's way too soon to tell. obviously these investigations take months, if not years, depending on how investigators -- what information investigators have at their disposal. getting the black boxes, examining debris, looking at radar tracks. now there is this immediate scramble to lockdown any and all informa...

All right. well, the russians are not happy about this, this plane going down. it was one of their migs and it was shot down by the turks and the turks are saying well, it invaded our space. the russians are saying, no it was over syria, you had to right to do this. and now we have a bit of an international incident. the russians are indicating they'll skip out on a global forum that included the turks. jenner j jennifer griffin is trying to piece this together. it's a nightmare. >> absolutely, neil. u.s. defense forces say that the radar tracks validate turkish claims that the se coy 24 cross...

Turks are talking to each other and find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation. >> russian president putin taking a very different tone. >> naturally our military purr seeing a heroic battle against terrorism sacrificing themselves and their lives. today's loss for us was like stab in the back delivered by the accomplices of terrorists. >> national security correspondent live for us at the pentagon. do we know for sure that the russian war plane violated turkish air space. >> u.s. defense sources tell me that the actual radar tracks validate turkish c...

Avoid it. we're joined by the cnn aviation analyst and former managing director of federal aviation administration safety board. the search has been halted except for some of these ships that were already in the area they have stopped, they have those large bright lights. might be able to see something while they are there. but is it your concern, are you worried that we might be losing some valuable time in locating this plane and potentially those passengers on board? >> well, every hour does count. but it's foolishness to have any kind of air assets up after dark. i think this will give the...

Conclusions to the data that they're analyzing at the moment. i don't think we're quite there yet. i still think even the experts, because of the the nature of this mystery, because this is unprecedented in avs history, they'll be reticent to release this information because we're all still trying to figure this out. we're 45 days plus on this and we're still no closer to identifying where the wreckage is. it's a big mystery. experts would be nervous in releasing that information when they are using the inmarsat analysts to try to corroborate where this area is. there's still conclusions about...