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Egypt killing all 224 people on board? investigators, theyre slowly ruling out reasons and heres what we know so far at this hour. a ministry of aviation source tells nbc news that the pilot did not make a distress call. the plane broke up in midair and metrojet ruled out technical failure as a cause and the russians disputing that. heres billneely in cairo for us. >> reporter: they have the flight recorders and working on them here in cairo all day and we understand that russian and egyptian in...

>> all right. we shall see what happens this friday. carly fiorina is scheduled to appear on "the view". on the democratic side of things, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin omalley are getting set for their next face-off which happens in south carolina this friday, november 6th. candidates forum will be moderated by rachel maddow. coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. next, an official looking into the crash of that russian plane says it was not caused by technical pro...

Plane was involved in some sort of a tail strike or the tail scraping the ground in cairo 14 years ago, and it was reportedly repaired by airbus itself. this is of course an airbus a-321 plane. so they will go back and look at who did the repairs, how thoroughly was it repaired and subsequently, have they done any thorough metallurgical examinations of the entire fuselage section that was repaired and that tail section to see whether there was any cracking because we have seen time and time agai...

Isis claimed responsibility for shooting the plane down. officials have dismissed that as impossible saying isis doesnt have the tools to do that. joining me is clive irving, author of "wide body." and a daily beast contributor. good to have you with us. lets talk about what you wrote about the fact in 2001 there was an injury, an accident with this plane, that may have doomed it in modern day. explain what happened then, how it was repaired and why that might be pivotal information now. >> what...

Underwent the usual regular checks right up until now and obviously nothing was found that suggested that there was any lingering problem from that impact. but ive related that to the fact that the evidence from the wreckage strewn all over the sinai is that the tail broke off from the rest of the plane and the two parts fell separately so with the combination of broken off tail and that anomaly in the airplanes history it would be natural for any investigator to look first, what an investigator...

They are going to have to look very closely at whether that tail strike 14 years ago played a role in this accident or whether there might be some sort of explosive that was used to bring down this plane, or even crew error. all the possibilities are wide open right now. >> nbcs tom costello reporting in washington. thank you. want to move on to breaking news we have been following. a weeks long mystery surrounding a vessel lost at sea. the ntsb confirms wreckage found at the bottom of the oce...

Influence. take a listen to james clapper today. >> we dont have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. does isis have the ability to shoot down an airliner? >> its unlikely but i wouldnt rule it out. >> so at this point, clive, is the best course of action as this investigation moves forward ruling out to causes to zero in on what the potential options are for what caused this tragedy? >> yeah. well, the first thing is that its -- highly unusual for a plane to break up in midair ...

Way the wreckage is distributed and we see that the tail section is three miles away from the nose of the plane and we have to look to see if theres any sign of an explosion. we have to be very careful of the word of explosion. one very unfamiliar and one familiar. familiar one is the bomb, where theres ignition, smoke and fame. the unfamiliar is an explosive decompression meaning with a failure of the structure of the airplane, the pressure of the air inside the cabin 31,000 feet is far higher ...

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