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Flight? >> it was critical to get it, because it told us -- it confirmed that this catastrophic and horrific eventuality, it told us when it occurred and where it occurred. it did not give us much more information from that, because it was the black box was pretty rudimentary by today's standards. and in this case, i would say the -- if the plane came apart, and in a dramatic fashion, it may not give us much information. but it will tell us when and where it happened. and the trick would be in the metal, and unfortunately in the condition of the victims. they may show damage from outside missi...

That for -- as an investigator, which david is, you don't want to speculate, you don't want to go into it, you don't want to rule anything out at this stage. >> yeah. and that's the most important point here. what -- you just have to systematically go through this. we have plenty of evidence. there was an in-flight break-up here. we have seen pieces of wreckage in other locations that do not -- they're not impacted by fire or explosion. we see that streaming down wreckage, which is hauntingly similar to the footage you see after the explosion of the "challenger" which we have all seen many tim...

On this one video, saying that because you don't see a smoke trail before the impact on the ground, you don't believe that the plane was in any way on fire or had been hit by any kind of a missile. >> yeah. if it had been let by a missile, you would see evidence of that in the air. >> colonel? >> this is rick francona. if i described the warhead to you, what we're looking at is 150 pounds of high explosion fragmentation warhead, proximity fused, would that change your opinion at all? >> i don't know what you're even talking about. why would that have anything to do with this? >> no. i'm saying...

Weeks, anderson. >> bob baer joining us, as well. bob, when you hear about some local prosecutors from a separatist group headed toward the crash site for their own investigation, the idea of, you know, people kind of combing over this crash site without really any experience in doing this, that raises all sorts of questions. >> reporter: anderson, i don't trust anybody in this. the russians, the ukrainians or the separatists. we're not going to get a clear version on it, authoritative version. we clearly need investigators on the ground. but right now, the people who know best what happened t...

>> that could be -- that's very likely to have been or could be material that exploded and went up into the explosion, and is then coming down from -- with the fireball that we saw, rather than -- or it could be, god forbid, pieces of the plane that followed on from it falling out of the sky. but my initial thinking would be it's part of the explosion that went up with the fireball. >> jeff weise, aviation analyst and columnist, joining us. it's good to have you with us. we haven't talked to you yet. what are your thoughts seeing this video? >> my first reaction was utter increduli incredulity...