the update of miami-dade. police were in pursuit of a suspect in a stolen vehicle so the car chase intense, so intense one point the suspect was driving on one of the rims. the suspect reportedly hit a homestead police vehicle in the pursuit. police cornered that chevy tahoe and the driver, surrounded the truck. took the driver out. the suspect is now in custody. new developments today in the crash of a russian airliners. frances rivera with the details on that one. frances? as the last remains of the 224 crash victims were flown to russia for dna testing, officials of egypt and russia and ireland, as well as the airbus manufacturer of the crashed plane wrapped up the investigation of the crash site and now analyzing the black boxes. meanwhile, the united states and officials here say a satellite detected a heat flash at the same time that the airbus a-321 went down. that heat flash did not come
as to whether or not this may have been a terrorist attack, that is not being dismissed at this stage but there is no evidence that indicate that it was an act of terrorism. all of that being said, there is also no clear explanation as to what brought that plane down. the mystery of what brought down a russian passenger jet, killing all 224 people on board, including at least 25 children, has only deepened. the only thing international investigators seem to agree on is that the airbus a-321, operated by the russian airline metro jet, broke apart in the sky, disintegrating just 23 minutes after takeoff. radar information indicates that at that point early saturday, the plane lost speed and descended rapidly. wreckage spreading over an eight square-mile area in the sinai
21,000 flights. could a rough landing in 2001 have been its undoing? the flying public in order to be safe we need to know what caused this plane crash. the a-321, the tail can hit too sharp landing or takeoff. in 2001 that is just what happened to this a-321. despite the damage the plane was repaired. if it is done properly and done by a mechanic that is experienced and the procedures followed it shouldn t be an issue. air bus rigorously tests for just such a possibility. we go beyond the limit that with use in service by really putting the tail on the ground and we just slowly accelerate. the tests, planes are the with a special skid to prevent
was detent the by a u.s. satellite around sinai around the time the metro jet aircraft crashed this. from cnn s barbara sta who was confirmed this with pentagon sources. right now both the military and u.s. intelligence community are reviewing this new information to determine what it means. was this flash part of the plane breaking up, or was it something else? they are trying to also determine whether that flash happened on the ground or mid-air. all things, john, they don t know just yet. about 23 minutes after takeoff a russian passenger jet suddenly disappeared from radar. the plane was cruising above 30,000 feet when according to the website flight radar 24 it experienced sharp changes in altitude in a matter of seconds. there were no distress calls from the cockpit, no sign of bad weather in the area, no indication anything was wrong, but airbus a-321 with 224 souls
photo of her husband and toddler as they boarded the plane. the couple had been in egypt to celebrate their tenth anniversary. she posted the picture with the caption we re going home. the cause of the russian airliner crash in egypt is still under investigation but an incident 14 years ago could hold clues. repairs for made to the tail section of the plane after it struck the runway in a landing in 2001. other plane crashes have shown it is that kind of damage that can cause catastrophic failure. the a-321, the newest biggest and most advanced of the a-320 planes. about 200 of them flown by u.s. carriers. the 18-year-old flight had some 56,000 flight hours and nearly