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Engines easily with that. fuel issues. you know, weve seen in the past foreign carriers -- >> when you say fuel issues, the plane may not have had enough fuel or -- >> yeah, i should clarify that. well, right. not enough fuel. minimum fuel. but its, again, im throwing this out as the range of possibilities -- >> all things youve seen. >> sure. and particularly with the 777, as greg feith mentioned, you had the ice crystal issue in some of the planes and you had an auto pilot issue in the turkish...

The real issue is, what was the cause of that? and youre right, its too early to speculate. but it ranges the gamut from pilot error to mechanical failure, design error, or design issues in between. you cant rule out, for instance, bird strikes. as weve seen with miracle on the hudson, you can take out engines easily with that. fuel issues. you know, weve seen in the past foreign carriers -- >> when you say fuel issues, the plane may not have had enough fuel or -- >> yeah, i should clarify that....

And the auto pilot issue. there have been some others. and i think thats part of what the ntsb that has to look at, with the help of boeing, contributing the information thats necessary, to determine if any of these past issues or instances with the design played a role in this particular crash. >> there has not been a plane crash like this of a commercial airliner of this size in this country, i believe, my colleague, tom costello says its been well over a decade, if im not mistaken. and consid...