discussing tonight and the plane may be further north than it normally was, but it wasn t in restricted air space. but miles point was its normal route would have other people are flying through that air space as well. if you look at all the aviation that s going that way over crimea, the faa regulation or the restriction and the esa and all of them. you re saying lots of airlines. absolutely, absolutely. lots of airlines are flying over ukraine, not tonight any more they are. the wish and the rush before we even know what, why and where borders on indecent. miles, let me ask you what we ll learn from flight data recorder here? will we get answers to some of these questions. flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. the voice recorder might be very telling for us.
they were not for this particular area. it s quite clear, iata. international air transportation association. correct. tonight they ve closed down all air space in eastern ukraine. british airways, klm, these are all airlines that did fly through eastern ukraine that have now decided not to. so miles, do you agree with richard s assessment or is this something that could perhaps also go to this airline a crew that was perhaps not prepared or doing what they should be doing. hearken back to a we saw with chad myers. this airplane tippic include flew a southerly route which happened to go through the prohibited zone by the faa. what does that tell you about malaysia airlines, their dispatchers and their thinking about safety in this region? when airlines tell you safety
regular course, near an area the faa had warned airlines to avoid because of the conflict between russia and ukraine. someone who has the ability to fire a surface-to-air missile and take a jet out at 35,000 feet, is it possible this person wouldn t have known this was a commercial jet? i think that s possible. what we ll find is if these missiles were transferred to somebody who knew how the fire the missile but was not plugged into air defense systems, they might have mistaken the aircraft for something that they wanted to hit, for example, a ukrainian military aircraft. one thing spider said that i wanted to pick up on, the focus has been on a slivy of intelligence. a heat signature or radar signature. there s a huge piece of intelligence we don t know but i m sure will be on the president s desk tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. is tha is are people talking on the radio. do we have human sources in the ukrainian opposition. there s a whole pattern of intelligence you might see that
morning because of big storms at the time the plane was about to take off. it traveled farther to the north. adding to the likelihood that this was mistaken identity because the plane usually doesn t fly there. chad, just as a follow question, it was near but not exactly in an area that the faa for one had warned airlines to stay away from earlier this year. near but not in that area. were planes flying in this area? were there a lot of other planes around? look at this. this is about 150 miles across, 100 miles high. 21 planes in the sky at the exact same time that malaysia airline 17 was right there. a plane right there, two planes right there. there were many planes. i ll fast forward you two hours. there were six planes in the same area. they all said we re not going to fly there today. one of them was another malaysia airlines plane, correct? that s correct. you bet. it went down way south of ukraine then down across i would say at least 300 miles out