jammed landing gear at the nose of the plane and one airline forever scarred by a crash was valuejet. in 1997 shortly after takeoff a fire broke out on flight 92 and within minutes the plane plummeted into the everglades and killing everybody on board. the airline never recovered. unbelievable. steve rattner, your thoughts. look. a couple of comments. you had examples where airlines twa, pan am being the most notable went out of bounds when this happened. twa the lockerbie crash and they were privately owned airlines. this is on owned 70% by the government so so much money the airline wants to keep this airline going. i guess the traffic will be down more after this but a question for the malaysian government do they want to put enough money in this thing to keep it going until they can reconstitute in
when you go into an active war zone, you re concerned, first, about first and foremost about your people thaw might be putting on the ground there, but then you ve got to think about the evidence and their wreckage recovery and, for sure, you want to think about those family members that have lost loved ones. the recovery of the human remains and the personal effects, that also has to be a priority too. and so there s a lot going on here and it s a real challenge for anyone, but particularly for a country in a war-torn area like this, it has got to be a double burden. that was former ntsb chairman deborah hersman. investigating a crash in the war zone. we are searching for answers this morning on the attack on flight 17. who was responsible? and how will the world respond? we are also following the breaking news out of israeli. stay with us. we will be right back.
the soviet statements have totally failed to explain with how or why this tragedy occurred. reporter: five years later a plane flying from alaska to seoul. one missile slammed into it killing all 269 on board. among them? georgia congressman larry mcdonald. for days, russians wouldn t acknowledge the crash and, later, denied they shot it down deliberately. a claim debunked by ambassador jean kirkpatrick when she shared this with the united nations. years later, the russian pilot of the plane that downed flight 007 said he knew it was a civilian plane but believed it was on a spy mission. off the south coast of long island, search and rescue crews are hard at work this morning trying to recover the victims and debris of twa flight 800 use
early yesterday s crash of malaysian flight 17 came years after the day after twa flight 800 exploded after takeoff crashing into long island sound. investigators concluded an electrical spark in the fuel tank was to blame. but witnesses say they saw rising streak of light in the sky, similar to a missile, sparking endless conspiracy theories. at first, i saw what appeared to be an emergency flare and then as i looked at it, i realized it was a lot more than a flare. it was actually a fireball in the sky. reporter: for all of the confirmed shootdowns of passenger planes, there are still other downed flights whose fates have never been fully solved. still ahead in four months time, malaysia airlines has had two flight disasters. unprecedented in aviation history. but where does this put the troubled airline? can they survive this? we will be right back with much more morning joe. spokesperson: get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card
which is what they thought was the aircraft capability of the separatists was. this plane was flying at 30,000 feet and these more sophisticated weapons were able to reach that high. secondly, what also seems to be coming out is that this plane was flying a slightly different route than the same flight had been flying the previous nights because of weather or because of wind favor ability, who knows. it s possibly the separatists did not expect to see a commercial airline flying in that particular spot at that particular moment. let s take a closer look at the pro russian rebels who the ukrainian government say is responsible for shooting down the plane. the leader of the group made a personal appearance at the crash site. that is him surrounded by his army guards. they arrived to survey the crash overnight. they have denied being responsible for shooting down the plane but there is evidence that calls those claims into