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Martha: officials say that a u.s. satellite detected a heat flash over the sinai desert at the same time the plane fell out of the sky. investigators are analyzing cat a to figure out what caused the plane to crash and took the lives of 224 people. is there an explanation? where did that heat flash come from? do they know? reporter: there are theories and possible explanations. but nothing concrete. no hard proof. as for some of the possibility being kicked around at this point. something catast...

Okay. well go back to john in a minute. mikey kay, are you still on? >> yeah, what i would say in answer to the question was never having flown an a-321, many colleagues who used to fly in the military along with me do now fly these type of aircraft and they are very automated. the a-321 certainly from experience having reported on aircraft incidents over the last three years has an incredibly good safety record. the things that jump out for me, dara, the pilot reportedly indicated that he had s...

The case because, they were taxiing for takeoff, if they had gotten airborne this thing happened we may talk about a whole different scenario. bill: the crew was warned by another jet on the tarmac. it was taxiing. apparently pilot said, got something coming out you should not. that is when they shut it down. 100 people on board if that gets in the air, what are options for a pilot? >> well at that point you go through the emergency procedures. obviously one of the things with an engine fire on ...

More on that from our randi kaye. >> reporter: a pilot with a keen eye notices the first sign of trouble, fuel leaking from the plane taxiing in front of him. dynamic airways flight 405. he radios it in. >> it looks like its leaking a lot of -- i dont know if its fuel. there is fluid leaking out of the left engine. >> reporter: flight controllers contact flight 405. >> do you copy? >> yes. we copy. >> engines on fire! engines on fire. >> they received a call at 12:34 for a reported engine fire a...

Numbers. he is still the republican partys front-runner. hes still the one to beat. >> that was nbcs peter alexander and hallie jackson reporting. we have images from a near disaster at floridas fort lauderdale airport. yesterday, a passenger jet caught fire just moments before takeoff. 21 people were injured evacuating the plane but luckily none of the injuries were serious. nbcs dan schenamen has more. >> reporter: passengers on other planes caught the dramatic scene on video. a dynamic airl...

Quickly exited. >> you just look at all the smoke coming from that plane. the engine of the boeing 767 that burst into flames just moments before the plane was set to take off for venezuela. cnns randi kaye has more on what went wrong. >> reporter: a pilot with a keen eye notices the first sign of trouble. fuel leaking from the plane taxiing in front of him. dynamic airways flight 405. he radios it in. >> hey, dynamic, out of the left engine looks like its leaking a lot of fuel. fluid leaking ou...

Were hurt in the fire and evacuation that follow, one seriously. now a safety inspector is digging into every inch of this small and young carriers operation. the story is unfolding between conversations of air traffic control. the flight crew and another behind it. more from randi kaye. >> reporter: a pilot with a keen eye notices the first sign of trouble. fuel leaking from the plane taxiing in front of him. dynamic airways flight 405 he radios it in. >> hey, dynamic, out of the left engine lo...

First responders that are going away. another image coming in right now that shows again, this dramatic scene unfolding at the fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. earlier today, as this flight was taking off, bound for venezuela, the reports are that it had been seen leaking fuel before this fire began. again, we are seeing different vantage points of just the amount of smoke that erupted out of this engine fire. we are still waiting to get confirmation on the exact number of people...

It is rad, but were gonna have to like check your credit score, so... oh my god, its like totally yours. you know credit scores change, right? arent you curious to see what it is right now? ah! still rad. credit karma, get your free score now new information from about the fire on a plane that we brought to you yesterday. we know fire suppression equipment was with deployed aboard a british airways jet that caught fire in las vegas. it just didnt put out the flames. thats according to a source...

The engine fire. >> well, right, the british airways, this flight again was heading from vegas over to london. like a ten-hour flight, they are calling this a technical failure, and airport officials said it was an engine failure. we know it happened in the left engine. the flames never made it into the cabin. the question is whiant how this engine failed. thats what they want to pinpoint. >> 6:13 in the morning hallie jackson time. thank you for being with me from las vegas. were getting starte...