bloomberg's andrea rothman i want to turn to russia. their military muscle with an $8 million tank during ve celebration. making an appearance was angela merkel and she paid tribute to russian victims of world war ii. her visit raise questions to a commitment to economic sanctions against russia as a conflict control in eastern ukraine. ryan chilcote joins us for more. merkel's the visit, whenever you get a western leader meeting with putin, we asked the question for what does it mean? ryan: anytime she meets with putin, it is important to pay attention. the answer is her trip doesn't mean there will be any relaxation of the sanctions. she went on sunday and did not go during the victory parade on saturday. she did it to send a message for you yes, we want to remember the russians killed and our responsibility as germany for that. but no, i will know when is a military parade as celebrate militarization of russian and what russia has done in ukraine. you know, it is been three months since at the 2 have met for you if you look to hurt u

andrea rothman joins us. do we know anything more in terms of the detail of what happened? rea: we have the basic framework. it went off about 12:45 p.m. the maiden flight of this aircraft. serial number manufacturing 23. this particular aircraft was meant to go to turkey. they were running a couple of test flights before it was to be handed over. this was the first time it had been flown. something went very wrong, very quickly. according to eyewitness reports it hit a power line. it went down. the fuselage was completely burned. four people died and two others are still in serious condition. beyond that, we don't have a lot more detail. manus: it is too early to say but give us a sense of where this plane fits into the airbus lineup. how big a product is it for them? they were about to roll it out to a number of other buyers. andrea: airbus has generally been a maker of super airliners. they make half of the world's civil aircraft and boeing makes the other half. a number of years ago they decided to take on a military project. this is a large air transport. it can be used