jenna: definitely, well-put, jon. we re look act news we re getting from sage r agencies like reuters. reuters says video you re seeing on the screen, also coming into our newsroom has been published by ukrainian activists. we can t forget the situation on the ground between ukraine and russia. we checked weather report notice area whether that could be a factor. as you see on the screen that looks like a fairly clear day. according to what we know about the boeing 777, 295 people on board, 208 passengers, 15 crew. looking through come conflicting reports. that is what we re being told what you re seeing on your screen there, the remnants of what is a plane crash. jennifer griffin is working the story as well from the pentagon and has been closely following the situation on the ground between ukraine and russia. it hasn t made a ton of headlines this week, jen, it is important to mention the context which this is all occurring and tension still between these two countries.
what is important for our viewers to consider as we take in some of this breaking news? reporter: jenna, right now most of the information that we are get are from russian sources, from russian media sources who are suggesting that this malaysia boeing 777 went down inside of ukraine near the town of torres. that is from a ukrainian r journalist on the ground. that is from the donetsk region. that is ethnically russian separatist area where russia is supporting accused of supporting the separatists there. in the last 24 hours there has been at least one plane allegedly shot down by russian surface-to-air missiles. that is according to the ukraine national security council. we know that a fighter jet, a sukoy 25, went down yesterday. the pilot, the ukrainian pilot evacuated and managed to save himself but that ukraine jet,
discretion? absolutely true. as i said we all try to take the most effective route, the most efficient route to save fuel and save time but i can not believe that the captain didn t realize where he was going and say, you know, i don t think this is a great idea. i mean whether there are 34,000 feet or not, you just don t go into a hot area where they are shooting at people. that is the craziest thing i ever heard. jon: we have on screen the, the depiction of the boeing 777 and the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. we still haven t found those from malaysia flight 370, one that disappeared over an ocean. they will certainly get it from this flight because it came down on land but i mean what are the chances that one airline has two of the most significant, in fact, as far as i know, about the only two significant civilian airline disasters in the same year?
ghost ship that still has not been recovered. now malaysian airlines flight 17 disappears. the airline confirms it has lost contact with that boeing 777. that is something that rarely happens in flights over land. in fact i m not aware of it happening to this day, in a flight over land, that an airline loses contact with one of its vessels. 295 people on board. indications are it was some kind of a hostile act that brought this plane down. we do not know precisely what happened but we re certainly staying on top of it. we have our people at the pentagon. we have our people overseas. fox news is on this story. we will bring you the very latest as we get it. once again, malaysia airlines flight 17 flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur, an 11-hour flight, non-stop, seems to have disappeared and that ominous smoke cloud growing in that field may tell the story.
in ukraine where we believe malaysia airlines flight crashed. there are significant number of reports saying the flight was shot downen rout from amsterdam to kuala lumpur in malaysia. it left amsterdam, crossed over germany, crossed over poland and just after entering ukrainian airspace it disappeared from flight radars. this is malaysia airlines flight 17. it was mask lash shun airlines flight 370 disappeared in the spring and still not been located. whether that is coincidence, we do not know. we do not know much about what has taken place here. we do know the malaysian defense minister towarded his ordered his agency to look into reports this plane was shot down. it s a boeing 777, 280 people,