>> what could have happened, you don't need to blow the aircraft out of the sky. for it to fall out of the sky. this missile only had to hit the aircraft. >> as peter -- >> a wing, a tail plane. >> as peter gould said, when an aircraft is hit like this, it in his words unzips and falls apart. >> all the fasteners around it start to fall apart. so it's essentially the plane could have come out of the air in one piece. but extremely distressed. because obviously it has been hit by a missile. and what you're seeing there is the fuel explosion. >> fareed? >> what this reminds us is of the enormous kind of power of asymmetry and asymmetrical warfare, that you have these weapons systems that even ten years ago you would not have had. that a few people, a handful of people, not particularly well-trained, could take out a commercial airplane, flying at