recent days. i believe it was yesterday but i know it was within recent days. so the separate rate of it is from the, russian separatist its do have these missile launchers. that said, so does ukraine bought. associated press it has four missile system file photos including one on flatbed truck maneuvered in ukraine by ukrainian forces. that happened to be on july 4th. as this jet dose gown, it is interesting and i would assume at this moment nothing but coincidental that 18 years ago today, twa flight 800 crashed off the coast of long island, new york and killed everyone on board. we know the conspiracy theoryies live to this day surrounding that. one of them was a missile fired at it brought it down. in fact investigators found it was a malfunction inside of a fuel tank that ignited the fuel tank and the plane blew up. so it could very quickly
plane flying on for a long way? no, possibly not. the kind of weapons that the could reach an aircraft at altitude, the sa-11 that ukrainian government ministry suggested it might have been, s-300, similar weapon have quite large warheads designed to do a lot of damage. a civil aircraft is not designed to take such punishment could have flown in varying states of damage before finally falling apart sop distance after the impact. edward hunt. shepard smith back in new york now. we can t know yet exactly what happened to the yet. we ownly know what authorities are saying and what the flight path indicates. the early indication this plane was shot out of the sky. is that confirmed? the answer is no. the intelligence agencies no doubt know exactly what happened by now because they have tracked it. but we don t yet know. we re awaiting specifics exactly
attempt to stir things up again and get the russians to resign. there is a statement from the ukraine president acknowledging the incidents that have happened in recent days, the third major tragic accident. the key is basically saying he is not ruling out at this time this plane was shot down. i wanted to talk a little bit about how the white house would assert themselves o in any kindf way because the president and putin spoke yesterday about the tough sanctions, where does this leave us internationally in this whole thing? they were more symbolic than tough, but is this a response to that? so many unanswered questions.
we know that, that one of the pro russian leaders in ukraine bragged this morning about shooting down a ukranian government cargo plane and then withdrew that claim and then we get word that a malaysian plane was shot down. putting 2 and 2 together, it seems clear what happened. am i jumping to conclusions? not at all, jon, we ll go in to the finger pointing phase where the separatist and russians said it was the ukranian government. and the ukranian government is saying it was separatist. and it is putin s worst nightmare. he has worked a campaign and off of the radar screen and now we
john bussey with us, from the wall street journal. since the moment i was in the gym, when this happened. and from the moment i heard it, a passenger jet just flew over what? yes. right. unimaginable that a captain of a jet would do this. not that this is his fault, not to pass blame, but what are you thinking? this is a dicey zone that has been getting worse very quickly. might have been the airliner or the air traffic controllers thought it was still safe but over the last four days there was a lot of indications as jennifer griffin has pointed out, a lot of indication it is wasn t safe. cargo jet getting shot down by a missile on monday. the ukrainians saying one of their fighter jets shot down yesterday by a russian plane and now this. and shep, there is a long history of commercial jets flying into or over dicey areas and getting into trouble. in african conflicts where there have been commercial jets shot