a tourist guide to bali, unscathed. at the scene was john wendle, a freelance reporter for abc news. >> there's blood splattered everywhere. and pieces of -- pieces of remains. oh. >> reporter: the rebels claim they have recovered the plane's critical black box data and voice recorders and will send it to moscow. u.s. officials say there is evidence the plane was shot down. >> shot down. not an accident. blown out of the sky. >> reporter: hours after the crash, the ukrainian government posted what were described as audio intercepts of the rebels. first reporting that a military plane had been shot down. then a short while later, one of the purported militants said, it was a civilian plane, spouting profanity, as he describes the bodies and belongings, saying there was no sign at all that it was a military plane. u.s. officials say the working theory is that an older-model russian-made surface-to-air missile, was fired at the jet by