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Did it come from? theres a cargo. theres approved shippers. with approved shippers, these baggages that are shipped, they are not screened because the shipper takes full responsibility for those packages so they screen them on their side which is not within the safety umbrella of this security itself. thats that you notice that tom is talking a lot about the tail area and the tail section where the cargo hold is. that is where the repair was done after the tail strike as well. im still not over ...

Suspended flights to sharm el-sheikh where that metrojet flight departed en route to russia. the airbus went down saturday killing all 224 people on board. let me bring in the msnbc terrorist analyst and a director of middle eastern and north africa research analysis. lathe, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> this is interesting because isis claimed responsibility just hours after the crash. many discounted those claims initially, but maybe not. >> well, you know, it seems that they jumped ...

British travelers, but the truth in all of this is going emerge through whose investigation and as she points out is it the black box and then corrupted and then to get the cockpit voice recorder. >> yeah, absolutely. this is essential to come up with the conclusion and all speculation again and whether its from the british officials and the american officials and its all speculation and theyre saying that likely its a bomb because they dont have the capacity to down it using a surface missile. ...

Coming up with more sophisticated devices. hes been experimenting, it is believed, with new generations of shoe bombs and new generations of underwear bombs. >> and brian todd joins us. now, what more are you learning about the airbus tail? >> anderson, in the course of reporting on this incident over the past couple of days, weve learned that this very same aircraft in november of 2001 had whats called a tail strike. in that incident, it was landing in cairo. it was operated by another airline ...

After it struck the runway but it was repaired. could have contributed to this crash? >> actually, the length of time can add to it. if the repair was made improper then the stress fractures could cause it to fail. but you know, based upon the pictures i have seen and thats not the best pictures and the best way to look at it, it doesnt appear that that pressure bulkhead failed. but if they had enough of a tail strike we may have weakened the structure somewhere else like the picture on the scre...

Undetected. some kind of a problem with the tail could have gone undetected. so, with the new information tonight that the tail is somewhat apart from the rest of the wreckage, that could bear out some possible theory that maybe that particular tail strike in november 2001 could have had a bearing on what happened on saturday. >> all right, brian, thank you very much. we bring in our experts from brian todds report and aviation expert and former transportation mary sciavo. paul, do you think ter...

If it is, this would go down as one of the biggest loss of life since 9/11 at the hands of terrorism. and i do want to make this point. we dont have any u.s. official definitively saying this was a bomb. we have u.s. officials saying theres evidence it may have been a bomb. theres still the other possibility, and that is that this was a result of a catastrophic break-up in air that may have been the result, for example, of that tail strike on the runway in cairo 14 years ago, and then a repair m...

The pilots bring in with a nose high at theitude. and they strike it before the wheels take the weight of the plane. this plane had a tail strike in the past. it was said to repair by air bus up to industry standards. and there was a bomb in the cargo hold. i suppose there might have been weak spots and might have made the tail snap off. >> techally you wanted to disable an airplane. you dont need an incendiary equipment. and it is a small one in the place of the tail cone near the tail. and onc...

From that analysis. >> it could be very soon, sharm el sheikh, thanks so much. >> the 224 victims of the crash. officials in st. petersburg say 33 bodies have been identified so far. today, nationalists mourn the victims of the countrys annual day of national -- lets turn to nic robertson. >> reporter: well, another tough day for the families of victims, the process of identifying the bodies continues. what they are hearing in russian media at the moment, two different versions of potentially wh...

Underneath the bottom of the fuse lodge. so, once you disrupt that flow of primary structure moving the stresses into an area want it to go into, those will go into an area of the fuselage and it will actually self-destruct. >> the same plane back in 2001 suffered daniel on the tail after it struck the runway and it was repaired. is it possible that could have contributed to that crash or is it so long ago that that wouldnt play a role? >> no, actually, the length of time can actually add to it ...