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One of the vehicles carries acquisition radar. if you had that information you would know this is a civilian airliner. it would have been squawking a civilian code and at the right altitude. >> it can operate without that. >> it can and i think that is what we are seeing here. we are seeing this operating in stand alone mode. when they turn on a tracking radar it finds a big piece of metal in the sky. you don't know what it is. if they see a piece of metal in the sky and acted on that, that violates every protocol we would operate under. >> it is incredible to me just thinking over the last ye...

This was all about. and then you've got to say, why wasn't there any warnings? >> let's bring in rick francona here. air force, colonel, you know about planes, about flights. tell me what vistrikes you here. >> well, why this particular aircraft? if you look at that display which is the transponders coming off all these aircraft, why that particular flight? why was that one singled out? it doesn't particularly present any kind of a threat. 32,000 feet, if that's what the altitude was, there's only one or two ways to knock something down. it's either air to air or surface to air. it's not a man...