was shot down believing that it was ukrainian military transport. and added to that, jim, we should point out, of course, that insurgent have actually claimed credit for shooting down other ukrainian military aircraft over the last several days. that s right. as always, we ll turn to the panel throughout the evening. stick around. next, what an eyewitness saw. an extraordinary account. you ll hear from one of the few western reporters on the scene of the crash when our extended two-hour coverage of 360 continues tonight. stay tuned. did you know, your eyes can lose vital nutrients as you age?
like a russian air defense system to track the aircraft. that tells me, maybe rebels. jim, your thoughts on that? there is another evidence trail here and oddly enough, it s on social media and this is something ukrainian officials sited to me early in the day that a separatisaccept separati tweeted he just shot down an an 26 and added a warning in his tweet, you know, don t fly, we warned you before, don t fly through our skies. those tweets were later deleted and then of course, you have denials from the militants they shot this plane down but in the evidence and clues that s out there now in audition to, as you mentioned, anderson, the intercepted conversations between militants, you have a tweet of all things from one of these militants as this plane
oro or catastrophe, in april there was an on going conflict but no such bans exited for flights on this part of eastern ukraine. certainly not at a altitude. before the flight began an image and message. a picture of the plane at the gate purportly taken by a passenger about to board. he posted online with a reference to the still missing flight 370. translated it reads, in case it disappears, this is what it looks like. as always, we have experts on every angel tonight. jim sh jim schutto, safety analysts david, author of why planes crash. jim, let s start with you on the security angle. u.s. intelligence saying this was a missile strike. how is it they know that? two pieces of evidence, one u.s. assets in the region