were onboard that. and if you re one of these separatists and if you are responsible for this, you ve created a situation for vladimir putin now, which is really untenable. if the early reporting is right and people in the east of ukraine shot this plane out of the sky by accident as it would appear in early going though we can t confirm that, if that s what happened, vladimir putin s equipment that he sent over to ukraine to be involved in this conflict, his missiles have shot, among others, americans out of the sky and they re dead. we now have a very serious set of circumstances that relates to that. i should tell you that the president of the united states is scheduled to speak in just a few minutes. it s a previously scheduled event at the port of wilmington in delaware in front of the i-495 bridge. on fox broadcast stations and on my network stations who are with us now along with fox news channel viewers, we ll be
patriot missile system which you heard deployed multiple times over the years to various war zones. this sa-17 or sa-11 buk missile system. that is how it works. it deploys with ground forces and it is used to shoot cruise missiles and planes out of the sky, shepard. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. we ll get back to jennifer in just a moment. i should let you know we re waiting for the latest from the white house. ed henry informs us that we, that we are expected to hear from them details of exactly what the call was to president obama and who knew what when. the malaysian defense minister says he is on the way to the ops room with the prime minister. he says the transport minister is on his way back from beijing. that is what is happening in malaysia with this malaysian airlines jet which has gone down. it was hard to imagine malaysian would survive to this day after the disappearance of the previous malaysian airlines flight, what happens to
to shoot down a ukrainian military aircraft, and instead a passenger jet came crashing to the ground. reporter: what is so worrisome right now, again pentagon officials have been watching this area very closely. and they have noted this sophisticated buk missile system was brought across the border from russia and provided to the separatist it is. the range of the buk missiles, they can fly up to 72,000 feet. what the separatists have been talking about in recent days, now according to this posting on social media, they were targeting ukrainian military cargo planes, like the one that they brought down on monday and it what seems at this point in team #r time because of circumstantial evidence they may have inadvertently targeted
reporters on the ground where able to see the buk missile system delivered as they say. that is a huge piece of information as we try to piece together what has happened. president obama reportedly has been told about this, this is just coming into our newsroom now as jennifer and others have mentioned, president obama spoke with president putin just yesterday talking about those sanctions hadn t happened yet. we have the representative chairman of the house and homeland security says he wants to emphasize there has been no formal briefing for him, however, and this is interesting, from his experience at that altitude for which the plane would have come down 33,000 feet, it was likely a military grade weapon that would have done it. he says in this sort of incident intentional or accidental, it is an international incident when
few weeks ago. in the last four days, when they ve seen three planes fall out of the sky, they believe in fact whether it was operational after all. the sa-20 is significant because that is another word for an s-300. this is a kind of missile launcher old held by the russian military. it is a much more difficult missile to fire. so if in fact u.s. intelligence determines that it was an sa-20 that brought down the plane, that it could possibly be from the russian territory. that s why it s significant that those sources are telling us they cannot rule out the missile was fired from the russian side of the border. quickly, jen, this comes a day after the president announced sanctions, specific sanctions against specific firms. specific defense firms, including one firm which makes the buk missiles. those are the sa-11 missiles. so if it was ansa-11, it shows