intelligence on the ground. i don t have any way to confirm if people on the ground are monitoring it, but if we don t we are crazy. but i am confident we do. eyes and ears are on this thing. i say as a result of the intelligence, the united states is going to know if something down out of the air, they will know what it was and where it came from and where it was made and possession of. it this is not a plane that burned in the sky or plane that burned before it came to the ground. this is a plane that broke up in the air. there are large pieces of the plane that are broken apart and not burned. it was a burning hunk when it came to the ground and certainly fuel on board would have exploded, but a large piece with six windows on it are not burned
it will be blamed on the ukranians and remember in 1993 with the russian downing of the korean air flight. it took them 14 years to admit they did. it the russians are not good at air defense but certainly good about lying about it. there seem to be plenty of lies in that world. on monday a cargo plane was shot down and wednesday a fighter jet crashed. and it was shot down by the russians and earlier today ukranian separatist bragged about shooting down a ukranian cargo aircraft and then you have malaysian flight on the ground and 295 people apparently dead. yes. major general bob scales, stay with us and we would like to rely on your expertise and we ll go back to shepherd smith. thanks, jon. we are monitoring what is
our end. given the fact that the the plane fell down in separatist territory, clearly the separatist are not equipped and capable to launch. and i see they have said they will try to help in the investigation, but given the fact that they don t have capability to launch investigation, i think they might have control over the black boxes. i mean, how do you see the ukranians and how do you help navigate insuring that there is an investigation? we are in close touch with the ukranian authorities and if there are request made we ll keep you a breast if we are providing assistance. any americans on board? i can t at this point in time. again, this happen so recently, lucas. we ll be happy to give you that information if we have details.
of the malaysian airlines disappearance when this was posted, they are saying they shot down the ukrainian transport plane. they thought they may have been shooting at near the city on the border there. they are ending their post saying we warned, don t fly in our skies. what that means they fired on a plane, they are saying right now they did fire on a plane, what kind of a plane it is, we don t know. he goes to that question was actually operating this, did the missile flailed of russia or flight out of ukraine? who actually had their finger on the button that launched the missile that brought down this airplane? another important piece as we try to figure out what happened today. kimberly, you were just having some reaction to that. this is what we were talking to jennifer griffin about. what kind of cheddar until they were getting, anything that preceded this munication that
not easy to bring down this kind of planes with shoulder fired missiles. it is very notable this has now been introduced into the separatist complex in ukraine. clearly he separatists are getting more and more russian help. jennifer, obviously an increase the amount of activity and violins in that area. what about any intel chatter you have heard on the ground from the people, is i there any kindf statements being put out to say they would take down any aircraft that cross into that area? we have not heard of any particular threats. at this point in time there is no indication that woul whatever brought down this plane wherever fired the missiles of it was a missile that it was intentional, it could have been an accident, but what is notable is clear targeting of ukrainian military