CNN Anderson Cooper 360 November 4, 2015 02:42:00
What we would call a catastrophic fire engine failure type of situation, it would be possible it could have caught to the rest of the airplane and caused this heat sensing device to, you know, activate. but, you know, at this point its really anybodys game. you can look at various, at various other aspects. would the heat have been noticed had the airplane just broken apart for what were talking about in the tail strike? you know, thats a hard thing. this is 14 years after that tail strike occur...
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