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flying over the black sea. this is video of the type of reaper drone that went down. white house officials say that the russian move over international waters is the kind of thing that could spark a dangerous escalation between super powers. it could lead to m miscalculations between, you know, two militaries that are operating not obviously in ukraine together but certainly in proximity in the region. and we don t want to see the war escalate beyond what it has already done to the ukrainian people and so this is clearly this was inappropriate, unsafe, unprofessional conduct by the russian pilots. and salma abdelaziz is live in london for us. salma, russia and the u.s. have very different stories here about what happened. reporter: two very different narratives about what took place in the early hours of yesterday morning on the black sea. the united states says that russian fighter jets essentially reading between the lines harassed the united states drone. the ....
Fighter jet dumped fuel several times over that drone for about 30 to 40 minutes. it was in the vicinity of that reaper before that physical confrontation that led to the propeller of the drone being damaged and the drone to be forced down. russia says this is simply not true. the kremlin said there was no direct physical confrontation between a russian aircraft and a u.s. drone. they say or the kremlin says that its russian fighter jets were scrambled when it detected an intruder and the trance responders were turned off, and the kremlin had already warned that it was conducting operations in the black sea area.warned that it was conduct operations in the black sea area. so they point the finger at the u.s. saying that it is the u.s. that behaved dangerously and came too close to the russian border and u.s. using a drone that they see as a threat because it could potentially ....
Airplane started three hours after. so an hour after it was supposed to arrive this process got started. that s just that s very very late. particularly if people are in the water and already. so you think that would have gotten improved because of malaysian 370, but, in fact it wasn t. and that is really sad for the families. also to you, ken, when mh-370 disappeared, a lot was made of the transresponders switched off in the cockpit that ken, manually switched off. how do you explain the sudden loss of contact in this situation? the trance responders that communicate the plane s position and communicate with air traffic control, those can be turned off. are you talking about the emergency locater transmitter? right. right. all right. because the trance responders just putting the flight number up it s a helps the controllers track it. those can be turned off, but the ....