does seem to corroborate what we've heard from a lot of experts and their analysis former royal australian air force officer brett biddington thanks so much ok thank you. u.s. intelligence officials claim that the plane was indeed downed by surface to air missile but have not specifically blamed the side vice president joe biden said a team of specialists will be sent to assist in training authorities with the investigation on a charge account is in washington following the american reaction. u.s. officials believe it was a surface to air missile that shot down the malaysian plane over ukraine the u.s. is not pointing the blame thing there just yet president obama spoke with the ukrainian leader but our shameka we can be sure that the blame game in the coming days and weeks is going to be vicious there are questions as to who had the capability to do this the ukrainian military certainly has the capability a launch like that would require a team of specialists as we hear from many experts and there is another question why was this malaysian airliner flying over the conflict zone we know that u.s. ai

one was from the australian royal air force. it was the bigger cargo plane. then there was a smaller one from the netherlands royal air force. and you felt all this unity. i mean, there's people from indonesia, from the netherlands, from germany. there's people from all over that were there, grieving. and of course i haven't seen a lot of the footage because we were just coming back. stuck in traffic right now coming back from that event it just the camaraderie and the international outpouring. it feels like we're a big grieving family. and that somewhat helps, you know, in coping with this horrible devastating event. >> well, harun, i know you haven't seen it, but i can tell you, there are tens of thousands of people. extraordinary numbers of people on highway overpasses, all along the highway, who have been waiting for hours. as the hearses pass by, some just stand silently with their hands on their hearts. some are crying. some are applauding. but it seeps like there's been this huge outpouring of netherlands. given the horror of how your nephews and the o