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We have several thousand controlled airports.% and if you look at all of our airports in total, we probably have 16,000 airports. so there are lots of airports without anzw air traffic contr tower. but for a problem where youre coming in to land and youre below where you should be on altitude usually its not a problem with an air traffic control tower. they were lined up for the runway. they were simply too low. i think theyll be looking at controlled flight into terrain, which is pilot error, ...

This accident. >> joining me now cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo. mary, you heard the official saying theyll look into weather, the jet companys ceo said he would be surprised to hear this would be because of pilot error. no distress calls. pilots were well seasoned. what kinds of questions would you be asking? >> statistically, if you look at the cause of accidents in this situation, your thoughts first go to something call control flight into terrain, often described to loss of pilot situati...

Such as a malfunction or a pilot error or something of that nature. >> meaning, if i could stop you there, just meaning just to help elaborate on that point youre making because its a beautiful point. youre saying if there is a lack of dialogue between pilots or any radioing of weve got a problem or trying to, you know, trying to fix a problem, that would be recorded and that may lead to something. but if that isnt there, that makes it that much more complicated? >> thats right. exactly. it show...

>> reporter: the ntsb determined first officer deliberately crashed the plane. the final seconds from the data recorder, you can hear him saying, "i rely on god" and begging him to help him pull up before the recording ends. this wasnt the only time in egyptian and western investigators delivered over the cause of the crash. >> in 2004, there was an accident off of sharm el-sheikh, a 737 crash. the bea, the french and the americans indicated that they believed it was pilot error. the egyptians d...

Adds to all the other comments that have been made about this flight since the very beginning. russians saying it was not pilot error or mechanical error making assumptions. the security not only in the airport where the passengers are but as you said, where the baggage handlers are and transporters are, where the cargo beds go into. those should be places to check but having been in sharm el-sheikh a few years ago and talking to some individuals who have been there recently as part of the multi...

Have looked at this and said there was some type of internal impact. maybe a bomb on board or maybe some type of mechanical malfunction. the airline has said that there was no mechanical malfunction. there was no pilot error. increasingly it does look like there was some type of explosion or blast on the plane but on the plane thats what likely brought it down. what we dont know yet and what the investigators are trying to determine is whether or not that was some type of terrorist act on the pl...

Have looked at this and said there was some type of internal impact. maybe a bomb on board or maybe some type of mechanical malfunction. the airline has said that there was no mechanical malfunction. there was no pilot error. increasingly it does look like there was some type of explosion or blast on the plane but on the plane thats what likely brought it down. what we dont know yet and what the investigators are trying to determine is whether or not that was some type of terrorist act on the pl...

Investigation on the ground. theyre looking at all the different pieces. theyre also looking at the bodies, too, to determine if they can have any clues. and you have those black boxes. that is going to be crucial. and while everyone wants to see results and answers quickly, weve been told by the egyptian government and russian officials that we need to be patient, that this could take some time before they determine exactly what happened. >> all right. ian lee talking to us there from cairo, ma...

Vladimir putin describing it as an enormous tragedy and adding his thoughts are with the families of the victim. in st. petersburg with the latest is editor nic robertson. there are theories about what could have brought the plane down. you hear a metrojet official saying it wasnt mechanical and no pilot error. you think they are hinting to terrorism by an external event. >> reporter: a physical or mechanical impact is what they said. they put up on the internet the figures the flights the plane...

Joining us now is d.j. frost, international commercial airline pilot. d.j., the head of the russian safety agency, im sorry, of the airline says the company is ruling out a technical fault of the plane or pilot error. is it a little early to be doing that? >> good morning, jon. thank you for having me back, and i believe it is. i believe it is early to be lending any speculation that its not some technical in that that plane did have a severe tail strike ten yearsing a. they say it was fixed, ho...