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That incident is still under investigation. >> weve had two incidents in less than two years, and the question is, is it a maintenance problem with southwest? is it a design problem with the manufacturer? or is it some new failure mode that we didnt know about that comes when the airplanes begin to get old? >> and linzie janis with us live tonight from philadelphia. and linzie, we were all trying to remember the last time there was a deadly incident involving a domestic plane. i remember being o...

>> reporter: this is what airports hoped to avoid during the thanksgiving rush. >> we didnt expect the tsa line to be this long. >> reporter: in denver, these long lines because the trains to the terminals shut down. >> they need to figure this out. >> reporter: they did hours later. it was a broken sensor. and were told that flights were able to get out without incident. this is what thanksgiving travel looks like. packed planes. 3% more flyers this year than last. and this is what just a coupl...

Maintenance, or on operations. >> but doesnt -- >> youve got to do those things together. >> is understood but the fact they say it suffered a staring casualty, doesnt that say is suffered a maintenance problem? >> as i said, weve been running these ships hard but one of the ways to keep from running these ships so hard, no matter how well you maintain them, is theyre going to have mechanical problems unless you have the time, unless you have the ability to have enough ships out there, and so bu...

Jets. and back in 2001, it had the accident as well sh, and the ta hits before it takes off from the runway before it belonged to another airline, and middle eastern airlines and that is repaired. they were going to be look gingt the safety procedures on the airline, and whether the maintenance situation was up to standard. and already there is a press conference by senior management of metro jet to say, look, they dont believe it was maintenance or technical problems that could have been respon...

Because of the economic crisis here, so that all stacks up to circumstantial evidence that it could have been a maintenance problem that was at the root of this, but again we just dont have the evidence at our fingertips at the moment. its a strong possibility, but its not the only possibility when it comes to learning about the face of the 224 people who were killed on that metro jet plane. >> it certainly isnt. matthew, thank you very much. matthew chance reporting for us live. were joined b...

External impact may have caused this plane to go down whachlt are you learning? >> reporter: yeah. well, its very difficult, isnt it? because he was using deliberately vague terminology to sort of explain that he didnt believe it was a maintenance issue or a pilot error issue. in other words not a company issue. that could have been responsible for death of these 224 people. trying to shift the emphasis to this theory that it was something external that caused the catastrophe being marked not ju...

Everyones checklist, its the first thing youre taught in flight school, do a walk-around, look at the plane, looking for obvious leaks, exactly situations like this, hydraulic fluid or fuel. you want to do that before you get in the plane and turn anything on. and presumably they did that here and did not see any kind of leaks. there are some exceptions when you dont have to do a walk-around. presumably they did that. when they started the engines, one can assume that something came loose, which...

Weather was bad off indonesias coast. but was it bad enough to play a role in flight 8501s disappearance? cnns tom foreman has that. >> reporter: don, investigators have to consider the possibility that weather brought this plane down. because it went through such a huge band of terrible storms out there. and here are the three key questions viewers keep asking us. first, could lightning have done this? the answer is not likely. modern aircraft are designed so they can be hit by lightning, the l...

Terrorist bomb downed it over scotland. and then you have twas flight 800 doomed by a fuel tank explosion. also was cobbled together at this hangar here in new york. so, if flight 370 does turn up, might we see another kind of reconstruction? for that, lets go to bill savage, former pilot and certified crash investigator. i know that you participated in several of these kinds of investigation, piecing planes back together. whats the value of doing that? >> the value is 100%, because by putting a...

Pilots particularly 50-year-old zaharie ahmad shah who owned a flight simulator at his house and had ties to malaysian radicalism. >> good morning. >> what do you think happened? >> well, in the beginning i thought if we have to look at the evidence that we actually have,ç thats the activity of the airplane, the way it climbed up over 45,000 feet and then went down radically. that doesnt sound like an airplane problem. i cant imagine what kind of an airplane, maintenance problem, mechanical pr...