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Of commission for two months. history shows other precedence of airliners, even well maintained like japan airlines where they have fallen out of the sky from a tail damage situation. happening years before the actual accident. >> whats your reaction? sean, i agree with kathleen up to a point. she has an excellent perspective there in that this is a russian maintained airplane. and a rapid decompression at that altitude could cause very easily a catastrophic structural failure. the terrorism ang...

Of commission for two months. history shows other precedence of airliners, even well maintained like japan airlines where they have fallen out of the sky from a tail damage situation. happening years before the actual accident. >> whats your reaction? sean, i agree with kathleen up to a point. she has an excellent perspective there in that this is a russian maintained airplane. and a rapid decompression at that altitude could cause very easily a catastrophic structural failure. the terrorism ang...

The damage to be able to say what youre looking at, first of all, the fact that the -- the roof of the aircraft, the fuselage, has burned out, we see that quite frequently whenever there is a fire particularly if its a fuel-fed fire from one of the wing tanks. we saw that in the british airways years ago where the plane guts itself right the way along the aircraft. and whats interesting the way it is localized in the midsection, forward section and hasnt gone further back beyond the wing area. a...