sheikh. it was en route to st. petersburg, russia. but this is seemingly contradictory to what the pilot said. he said there was some kind of technical problem. as we know, 20 minutes into the flight, contact was lost and the plane dropped off the radar. it went down in a volatile region of the sinai where egyptian forces have been battling isis militants. again, as i said, both egyptian and russian officials have essentially ruled out any foul play or terrorist attack. this as family members are waiting. any more information about what happened and always for the bodies of their loved ones to be returned. also investigators will be looking into the history of this particular metro jet airliner. if there were, indeed, any mechanical problems. again, egyptian officials say none were determined to have
time ago spent an hour or more with the family members out of respect to them to inform them of their decision. an emotional meeting we are told. telling them they did all they could. some of the family members told us they re grateful for the coast guard. they flew lots of ships and planes and personnel out there for almost a week for a size bigger than california trying to find survivors. unfortunately they could not find any and so they have told the families they ll suspend as of 7:00 p.m. as you said, announce it formally in about an hour news conference that they re holding with the national transportation safety board. the ntsb now takes up trying to figure out why this happened, why the ship went into the storm, what sort of mechanical problems they had and detail the interest in finding the ship and the voice data recorder aboard the ship. very difficult to do in three
as barbara said, doctors without borders are furious. they want answers. i think a lot of folks do, too, and how this could happen because of the great work the hospital was doing in that part of afghanistan. he s still testifying, the general right now. we ll, watching that closely. barbara, thank you. colonel, thank you as well. things will get worse before they get better. that is what the mayor of columbia, south carolina, is saying about this historic flooding that has just rocked that state. we re going to talk to him next. new details about the missing cargo ship carrying so many americans near the bahamas. the mechanical problems we re learning it faced during hurricane joaquin and why the ship is now so hard to find.
it is look more like a recovery effort and they will have to take away bodies, evidence and find the black boxes to work out what went so terribly wrong. but for now they will be staying put and they are hoping that tomorrow morning the weather will clear and they will be able to continue with that hike. and we are also learning that the trigana air service does not have a particularly good safety record. talk to us about that and whether authorities have any idea what possibly caused this crash. look, as for the cause, rosemary it s too early to say. but they are looking at mechanical problems, at pilot error and weather but it s we know that the plane took off yesterday afternoon with clear weather, that it may have encountered some clouds on the top of the bintang mountain
landing on the u.s. navy ship red cloud. okinawa an island 900 miles from tokyo that houses most of the u.s. military forces stationed in japan. jim miklaszewski joins us now. good to see you here, especially going to give us the breakdown of what actually happened that caused the chopper to go down. well, according to u.s. military officials a u.s. special operations training mission that included two japanese military who are involved in this. and beyond that, they can t tell you much. now the u.s. military pentagon will call this a hard landing. but you and i, if we look at this video, that s a crash landing. there s no way that a pilot would intend to land there intentionally unless, of course, he encountered some kind of mechanical problems or something and he had to put the helicopter down there. in the midst of all of those cargo containers, a very dangerous proposition. but he managed to squeeze the