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Mh-17 the very next day, they flew south of the entire region. >> staying away is usually a pretty good idea. that will almost guarantee you're not going to get shot down. u.s. carriers have not been going over that area for quite some time. hour carriers are alert to any notices that come from the faa about where to go and where not to go. ultimately, the airline itself decides where it's going to go and where it isn't going to go. but ours do follow any guidelines that our faa puts out. and in any case, this is an sa-11. it's got a slant range of 72,000 feet. >> twice the height. >> that's 1...

Wouldn't we have been seeing them use them? >> i've never heard a compelling reason from the intelligence community why it is we haven't seen more of these strikes. people say about 50 attempts have been made. this is a post-world war ii phenomena. about 50 attempts have been made or strikes have been attempted. >> how protected are we in general by the fact that they take so much training to use? in this case we heard oliver north talking about how it could be two years to learn how to fire one of these things. >> that's for the sa-11, which is a complex system. >> but we are now worried abou...

Nations, icao, we don't hear from the netherlands they had nearly 100 people on that plane, doesn't seem to be outraged except for president obama. >> why do you think we aren't hearing that? >> that's a good question. we heard in the past reluctance of europe feens criticize russians because they get their couple months of' oil and they'll be back to winter and they need that. and saying we don't want to cast blame too soon. well, forget about the blame. you want to recover your victims. recover their remains. reunite them with their families. that's first and foremost, much less down the roa...

Being used on the west side of the border. >> reporter: to the ukraine side of the border. the pentagon did not dispute general breedlove's assessment that the russians have been training the separatists on antiaircraft systems. >> i don't know exactly what system he was referring to, but we would agree with his assessment that some separatists have received some training in these vehicle borne systems. >> because of the technical complexity of the sa-11, it is unlikely to be able to operate without assistance from knowledgeable personnel. thus we cannot rule out technical assistance from russ...

Being used on the west side of the border. >> reporter: to the ukraine side of the border. the pentagon did not dispute general breedlove's assessment that the russians have been training the separatists on antiaircraft systems. >> i don't know exactly what system he was referring to, but we would agree with his assessment that some separatists have received some training in these vehicle borne systems. >> because of the technical complexity of the sa-11, it is unlikely to be able to operate without assistance from knowledgeable personnel. thus we cannot rule out technical assistance from russ...