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Question here right now. an executive of the airline company said they hadnt been paid over the last two months. he blamed that on the state of the russian economy. we know its suffering sanctions, european/u.s. sanctions for its actions in ukraine. authorities here in russia say theyre investigating metrojet and also investigating what order its finances were in overall. we also know that theyve investigated the companys other two a321 aircraft, those have both been found to be in good conditio...

Point finger back at metrojet, maintenance, what happened there, that would send the ball back to russia. is there political advantage here to be played by russia or is this just about embarrassment for russia? >> it depends what the facts are going to show from the russian point of view, i think, chris. >> we do know you have a lot of different entities on the ground. thats the good news. you have the black boxes. theyre not dispositive but they do give you information. >> thank you both. mor...

Was that nobody was allowed access to the site because of the fighting and because of the lack of control over this situation. so so much information that could have been garnered early on wasnt. youre saying here, you will definitely know why this happened and if people want to, they would know sooner rather than later, yes? >> well, its highly unlikely that theyre not going to know what happened. when you have an accident report, it usually says probability of what happened. its not always tha...

Federal aviation investigation here now because of late payments over the past two months. an executive from metrojet had said that the payments were late because of the poor state of the economy of the country, an indication of the u.s. and european sanctions on russia because of its actions inside ukraine. but nevertheless, the federal aviation authority is looking into all the monetary aspects, the economic viability of this company at the moment to see if that could be a contributing factor....

Structural member being lost or a bomb on board. >> lets talk about what we do know about this particular planes structural integrity. this metrojet, the tail of this very plane struck a runway somehow in cairo in 2001. what would the connection between that incident and this crash, what could it possibly be? >> it would be the nature of the repair and how good the repair was. tail strikes happen several times a year in the united states alone. id probably say on estimate maybe every other month...

>> i ate all of it. daddy, too. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. theres the sun, finally. it is coming up. good morning, everyone. welcome back to your "new day." up first, a fresh clue that could reveal what caused the crash of that russian passenger jet. its called a heat flash. it was detected by a u.s. satellite at the very same time the plane went down in the sinai killing 224 people. >> were also digging deeper into the safety record of metroje...