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Or human error. >> translator: there are not such faults as engine failure. system failure, there is no such combination of system failures that could lead to a plane breaking up in the air. >> reporter: but investigators have not ruled anything out, including structural failure. in-flight breakups are rare but have happened in the past. and the metrojet plane had suffered but there is growing speculation tonight that the plane still, a local egyptian branch of isis claims it shot the plane out ...

Bit. appreciate it very much to both of you. want to also give you this reminder, programming night. nbcs rachel maddow will host a democratic candidates forum this friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern time only here on msnbc. developing, an airline official looking into the deadly crash of a passenger plane over egypt now says it was not caused by technical problems or human error. why did it suddenly break apart? were live in cairo. plus, explosive new revelations about a live in the church of sc...

Good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. russian officials have not yet identified the cause of saturdays metrojet plane crash in egypt that killed all 224 people on board, almost all russians including a number of children. airline officials said today an external impact is the only probable cause of the crash. theyre trying to rule out technical flaws or human error. nbc chief global correspondent joins me from cairo. its understandable this airline would try to rule out anything that would...

>> all right. we shall see what happens this friday. carly fiorina is scheduled to appear on "the view". on the democratic side of things, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin omalley are getting set for their next face-off which happens in south carolina this friday, november 6th. candidates forum will be moderated by rachel maddow. coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. next, an official looking into the crash of that russian plane says it was not caused by technical pro...

>> they have a lot of work to do. rene, thanks. there are conflicting claims about what may have caused this horrible crash. our senior international correspondent matthew chance joins us from st. petering burg. the russian airline already dismissed what they call technical or human error. why are they declaring this so early on, especially when the kremlin isnt ruling out terrorism? >> reporter: well, i think theyre using that vague language that they have used, trying to distance themselves as...

From what we understand. they are bringing back bodies and body parts back to russia, about 140 or so have already been repatriated to st. petersburg. family members are giving dna samples so that they can begin to match bodies and body parts with family members. obviously, a very tragic situation there, but they have begun the process of getting victims back to their families, back into russia, gretchen. >> conor powell, thank you. as investigators continue to examine what happened in the ski...

Host of "quest means business" richard quest and also the former chairman of the ntsb. you were monitoring the press conference. what jumped out at you about what officials were saying? >> really, the comments that it was not technical and it was not human error but external forces or external reasons, i just dont see at this point that they can make such a claim. its an extraordinary claim to make but it is not surprising that the airline would be saying that at this particular point. the reali...

The work of explosives, then what? thats the very question investigators are hoping data from the planes recorders will reveal. so suddenly plunge from the sky with 224 people on board. 20 minutes after takeoff from egypt saturday morning, the airbus 321 reached a cruising altitude of about 33,500 family. then almost immediately plummeted, disappearing from radar, with no distress call from the pilot. as the victims bodies are recovered and flown to russia, airline officials quickly seem to rule...

Intact, and none of them had significant burn marks. so what we have now is a lot of the different pieces of information, and everyone really trying to put the puzzle together, but what is vital at this stage is retrieving the data from the two black boxes. when that is going to happen, we are not entirely sure at this stage, but from what we know, they have not been that severely damaged, and so hopefully the x experts can extract that information fairly quickly, but both the russians and the e...

Theyre saying that -- theyre excluding technical problems. they reject human error. they now say it is an external influence that created this. what do you think simply of how the airline -- what the airline is already saying on this? >> thats a little bit of a softball because under the international law, the egyptians are in charge of the investigation. and i think its appropriate if the airline comes forward with -- can release information about the pilots training, the pilots background or t...