turks are talking to each other and find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation. russian president putin taking a very different tone. naturally our military purr seeing a heroic battle against terrorism sacrificing themselves and their lives. today s loss for us was like stab in the back delivered by the accomplices of terrorists. national security correspondent live for us at the pentagon. do we know for sure that the russian war plane violated turkish air space. u.s. defense sources tell me that the actual radar tracks validate turkish claims. u.s. pilots heard the multiple warnings to the russian pilots on the guard frequency. that s mandatory radio frequency that s in all aircraft.
airplane was about 30 minutes ahead which is a fair distance. and it s difficult the procedure that i was explaining before we went on air was that if the controllers are expecting an airplane at a certain spot, it seemed very compelling to me that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they re saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after that they would try to relay through another airplane. so it indicates to me that maybe the problem was developing but for that other airplane, it s not uncommon to not be able to contact them as a favor to air traffic control to relay information. so they probably just wrote it off as oh, we just can t get ahold of them. they re too far behind it. michael, you ve been breaking a lot of stories on this. from what
we know one thing from the thai radio report by the way. the report that came out today they said they did not enter thai air space. does that mean they weren t going north? i think so. unless you also there was also a report about another plane that had been contacted by authorities in vietnam to see if they could make contact with flight 370. to you, that s significant? yeah. my understanding is that that airplane was about 30 minutes ahead which is a fair distance. and it s difficult the procedure that i was explaining before we went on air was that if the controllers are expecting an airplane at a certain spot, it seemed very compelling to me that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they re saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after th
that they decided to attempt contact with the airplane. that means, where are they? in other words in their head they re saying, where is this airplane? so the first attempt would be to contact them on the frequency they were designated to be on. then they would attempt on the guard frequency, which is the emergency frequency. after that they would try to relay through another airplane. so it indicates to me that maybe the problem was developing but for that other airplane, it s not uncommon to not be able to contact them as a favor to air traffic control to relay information. so they probably just wrote it off as oh, we just can t get ahold of them. they re too far behind it. michael, you ve been breaking a lot of stories on this. from what you understand, from your sources, all options are still on the table for investigators. they are still looking at all the things that we are sitting around discussing are things that they are sitting around discussing. yeah. i would say the mo
russian war plane violated the air space? and if so, for how long? well, for a few seconds, we re told, they did cross into turkey. u.s. defense sources tell me that the actual radar track validate turkish claims. authorities released this map, the one you showed showing the path of the russian plane, u.s. pilots flying nearby i m told heard the multiple warnings issued by the f-16 pilot totz russian pilots on the guard frequency. amanda tory radio frequency in all aircraft. we were able to hear everything that was going on. obviously these are on open channels. i m sure there s others who heard it all as well. the turks say they issued ten warnings in a matter of five minutes. military sources whom i spoke to just minutes after the plane went down told me two turkish f-16s were involved, one fired an aim-9 side wiepder, a heat-seeking missile a weapon normally fired at close range.