a newer plane like this thats 11 years old could have thousands of data points a least hundreds and maybe 1000 or more and this is everything from what the pilots inputted into the system what the plane was doing how the fuel burn was going it would be a godsend if we can find that flight data recorder raddatz steve were entering the third week of this we have talked to you almost every day today as you sit here what do you think brought the plane down ganyard theres not still not enough evidence theres really nothing thats happened in the past week that would suggest anything different in some of the theories we have been talking about for almost two weeks everybody still believes that the marginal evidence marginally suggests that there was a deliberate act by somebody in that cockpit so beyond that we really dont know anything more and we need more facts and time is running out raddatz you know i was thinking the world is really riveted by this mystery we have all gotten on airplanes surrendered ourselves to two strangers in a cockpit or watched loves one go off and do the same is there anything from what we havent learned the transponder was shut off we havent found the black box do you think theres anything that will change going forward because of this whether we find it or not ganyard i think its a matter of will after the air france mishap there were some very good suggestions that the france civil authorities made to say lets prevent this from happening again none of them were implemented maybe now that weve had a second tragedy something will happen its not the technology its there its just a matter of who is going to pay for it raddatz thanks curley and depends on what we find raddatz it certainly does thanks to both of you you both have been so great on this story now to breaking news from ukraine russian forces opening fire this weekend completing a takeover of territory russia now claims is its own abcs alex marquardt and his team have been in the middle of it all and he joins us now with the latest alex alex marquardt abc news correspondent good morning martha this says it all the parliament here in crimeas capital waving a huge russian flag those mysterious russian forces weve seen over the past few weeks here in crimea now no longer hiding their identity instead proudly showing off that they and now crimea are russian begin videotape marquardt voiceover it was one of the last major bases in ukrainian control and the russians wanted it firing warning shots and sound grenades special forces on saturday fanned out across baalbek ph base marquardt this is a very tense standoff between those russian special forces right there the ukrainian soldiers right here who have turned their backs on the russians refusing to surrender