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American fighter jet shot down over Iran, search for crew member continues · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: We're following reports that a US Fighter JED was shot
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  Speaker 1: down in Iran, and that would make it the first
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  Speaker 1: since the war began nearly five weeks ago. Iranian state
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  Speaker 1: media has broadcast these images, which it says is the
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  Speaker 1: wreckage of the aircraft. It comes just days after US
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump said in a national address that the
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  Speaker 1: US has beaten and completely decimated Iran and was going
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  Speaker 1: to finish the job, and we're going to finish it
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  Speaker 1: very fast. CBC Senior International correspondent Sasha Pettersik is tracking
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  Speaker 1: developments from Jerusalem. Sasha, what more do we know about
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  Speaker 1: this down to US aircraft?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Sarah, as it turns out it's not aircraft one.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually it turns out that there's two that have
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  Speaker 2: gone down earlier today. This started with news that an
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  Speaker 2: F fifteen E fighter had been shot down by the Iranians,
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  Speaker 2: and that set off race really to try to find
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  Speaker 2: the two crew members who had ejected and were presumably
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  Speaker 2: somewhere underneath somewhere in Iran, Southern Iran. The Americans almost
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  Speaker 2: immediately had sent out their helicopters and other planes drones
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  Speaker 2: as well, to try to find them. They did rescue
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  Speaker 2: one of the two crew members within a few hours actually,
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  Speaker 2: but the second one is still missing. Then we heard
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later that among the aircraft that had
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  Speaker 2: been sent out to try to find these crew members,
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  Speaker 2: one was shot at and eventually shot down. This was
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  Speaker 2: a Warthog attack plane which was shot down somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: the area of the Strait of Hormuz, not too far
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  Speaker 2: away from where this one where the first one went down.
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  Speaker 2: We found out that two other helicopters, Blackhawk helicopters, had
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  Speaker 2: also been shot at. Both of those managed to make
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  Speaker 2: their way back to their bases and everybody on board
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  Speaker 2: was safe. But it's really turned out to be a
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  Speaker 2: very bad day for the US and for this military effort.
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  Speaker 2: As you say, it's the first time that an aircraft
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  Speaker 2: has been shot down by Iran, but really it's much
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  Speaker 2: more complicated than that, and the political fallout for the
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  Speaker 2: administration for US President Donald Trump could well be serious.
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  Speaker 2: We're starting to get a little hint of that already today.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a democratic representative and what he had to say.
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  Speaker 3: We were told just a couple of nights ago, in
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  Speaker 3: the President's twenty minute address to the country that we
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  Speaker 3: owned the skies of Iran, and it looks like we
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  Speaker 3: don't if this is happening. And this is the concern
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  Speaker 3: with this conflict is that we have a president who
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  Speaker 3: is completely unprepared for what's next, has no justification as
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  Speaker 3: to why we are there, seems to have more plans
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  Speaker 3: for a ballroom in the East wing of the White
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  Speaker 3: House than a conflict in the Middle East as it
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  Speaker 3: plays out right now.
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  Speaker 2: So this is really turning into a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: challenge for the administration, for the military as well, especially
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  Speaker 2: since the message was that the US had everything under
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  Speaker 2: control in Iran was effectively beaten militarily. If that turns
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  Speaker 2: out not to be the case here and really Iran,
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  Speaker 2: really all they have to do is to stay alive,
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  Speaker 2: to stay effectively not be defeated, and that is what
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  Speaker 2: they've considered their.
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  Speaker 1: Bar well, and Sasha around continues to target oil and
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  Speaker 1: energy infrastructure in the Gulf States as it's maintaining a
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  Speaker 1: virtual blockade and the critical strait of Hormos. What's the
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  Speaker 1: latest on that front.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. This is really turning into a real
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  Speaker 2: challenge for the Gulf States on a couple of different levels.
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  Speaker 2: Today we saw Kuwait facing not only attacks on a refinery,
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  Speaker 2: but also attacks on its desalination plant, which is a
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  Speaker 2: civilian thing and is very critical for drinking water in
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  Speaker 2: the Gulf State. We've also seen a couple of other
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  Speaker 2: gas plants over the past few days being hit in
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  Speaker 2: the UAE and also in cutter and we've heard that
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  Speaker 2: those won't be back up to full operation for three
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  Speaker 2: to five years. That could be a big problem not
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  Speaker 2: only for those states, but for the customers that need
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  Speaker 2: the gas. So it's a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Sasha that CBC Senior International correspondent Sascha Petritick and
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem