Heat Flash News Today

Doubt as investigators are looking into a fuel explosion or an overheeded lithium battery. earlier in the week pentagon officials say they detected a sudden and unexpected heat flash, seconds before the plane crashed. russia announcing friday it was suspending flights to egypt, today saying they had flown some 11,000 tourist out from sharm el sheikh and back to russia. while this is a joint russian and egyptian investigation, "new york times" is reporting the fbi is also helps with forensic anal...

Doubt as investigators are looking into a fuel explosion or an overheeded lithium battery. earlier in the week pentagon officials say they detected a sudden and unexpected heat flash, seconds before the plane crashed. russia announcing friday it was suspending flights to egypt, today saying they had flown some 11,000 tourist out from sharm el sheikh and back to russia. while this is a joint russian and egyptian investigation, "new york times" is reporting the fbi is also helps with forensic anal...

Crash that killed 224 people. one british official said if it was a bomb, airport security worldwide might have to change. conner powell is following this from the middle east bureau. what is the latest? >> a week after this downing of this russian jet, the question still remains what brought it down. evidence seems to be mounting that it was a bomb. but u.s. officials and western officials all still hedging their bets saying that it is about 90% likely that in fact it was a bomb and the head eg...

Terrorists since 9/11. bill: is there explosive residue found in the wreckage of that airliner? sinai? >> they have found some fragment parts on some of the bodies in the rear portion of the aircraft which i think is significant. i think also the fact that isis just declared war on russia after russia invaded syria. this plane was head toward russia. the satellite imagery showed a heat flash on the plane which i thought was significant. the pilot -- there was no time to warn about this. so it wa...

U.s. and british officials putting into high likelihood a bomb brought down that plane. senator john mccain joins me now. i know this is not conclusive evidence and u.s. intelligence is being more cautious than the brits right now but you have the prime minister standing next to the egyptian leader and calling putin today and saying this is a high likelihood. that certainly indicates they have heard something. >> i think they heard something. just on the face of it, planes made by airbus do not ...

>> elise abbott, thank you. three very distinguished experts. michael weis is cnn contributor and at the daily beast and author of isis inside the army of terror. lost aban is a boeing 777 captain and a cnn analyst. anthony may is a former explosives expert with the u.s. bureau of tobacco and firearms and a veteran of the twa 800 case back from 1996. michael weis, if i can begin with you. the issue of these that smoking guns so far or definitive smoking guns so far. but there are definitely clue...

Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> makes me grateful the one time i got a tattoo it was temporary. be sure to set your recorder so you can watch "outfront" any time. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news and a string of potentially significantly developments in the crash of 9268. the latest coming from the american embassy in cairo warning employees not to travel anywhere in the sinai peninsula where the russian airbus went down until investigators determine exactly what happened. tod...

>> in the end, investigators determined that 800s center fuel tank exploded, causing the plane to break apart. the government said there was no proof of a criminal act. he expects the same type of conspiracy theories will result from the crash of metrojets 9268. there is already talk of a missile and a bomb. a heat flash detected at the time of the crash suggests a catastrophic inflight event. that heat flash is similar to the red flash that people witnessed when twa crashed and that determined ...

The united states is not going that far. not yet. there is a feeling here that this is, well, something happened up there. there was a heat flash, an explosion and a plane came down. will we know the rest of it? well update you on the intelligence. thats next. before earning enough cash back from bank of america to take their act to the next level... before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time... 2% back at the grocery store... and 3% back on gas... vince of the flying branzinos got a ban...

>> reporter: tonight a u.s. official tells cnn what the pentagon calls a heat flash in midair shortly before the plane crashed. perhaps the signature of an explosion. contrasting the report from a news agency saying none of the recovered bodies of passengers show evidence of explosive impact. tonight cnn has learned despite that report, u.s. government experts still arent ruling out the possibility of a bomb onboard, even as they weigh other scenarios. >> other than a bomb, what could cause a ca...