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That aircraft model has only been flying since 2009. the age of the plane, certainly, investigators dont believe is necessarily a factor. they say that right now, theyre looking on the one hand possible mechanical failure and laooking at possible pilot error. theyre also not ruling out the factor that the weather might have been a factor. this morning in moscow, there were some pretty heavy snowstorms going over the area, certainly caused some disruption in flights anyway. thats one of the thing...

Pleitgen is at the site. is there any indication why this plane went down? >> thats what investigators are trying to figure out, and they can tell by being here theyre trying to move in lots of heavy equipment to make that happen. one of the things that are hampering the rescue efforts is the snow thats coming down and theyre wondering if the weather played a part in this plane coming down. this plane took off at around 2:21 p.m. local time. it apparently was in the air only a couple minutes. it...

Transported eight people. and according to its website, it claims that it abides by flight safety regulations and rules established by the federal aviation administration. so that will now be the job of the faa. and also, the national transportation safety board to ensure that that actually is the case. and we did find at least one deadly accident that this same company was involved in, back in 2001, and in that case, it was, ultimately, pilot error. but, again, that was back in 2001. well have ...

Expectation that nothing would go wrong especially with a twin turboprop. >> we have pictures from my trip. when youre in a c.o.d., youre facing bark wards in what looks like an old plane, this is the inside of it. you have a helmet on and youre seat belted in six different ways. not because of the safety of the c.o.d. but because of the catch on the carrier. so when theyre investigating what happened what will they look at? pilot error? conditions around the arkd carrier? what do you think? >> ...

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Pilot error, robert. what do you think? >> it is probably a little early to blame it on the pilot although statistically, pilot error is a cause and probably 70% of airplane accidents. again, they do have the black boxes out of the airplane, and time is going to tell appeared one thing that is important is a source that we have said the aircraft was in the process of trying to make a missed approach, going around because there was something going on that the crew did not like, maybe the weather ...

Point, however, ruling out the fact that there was no explosion on the airplane, right now it would lean towards possible mechanical and pilot error scenario. jon: pilots were talking about having problems with the flaps, the things people might see kind of creeping down from the wings before takeoff and landing, they give you spray lift, if youre having a problem with the flaps that could cause a plane to go down. >> this is an old plane built back in the 60s, a lot of mechanical things going w...

Possibility the plane might have had bad fuel so investigators are now testing samples taken from the fuel tank used to fill the russian plane. were told those results could be in as early as today. experts are looking at pilot error or technical malfunction. this type of aircraft has been involved in 39 fatal accidents over the years and most were attributed to bad weather or human error, though some crashes were caused by the planes being overloaded. when a plane goes down shortly after takeof...