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Tail can hit the ground and the aircraft comes up. or during landing it can occur as well. a tail strike typically occurs during takeoff when youre getting too aggressive about your climb and your vr, rotating speed, is anticipated and you start to rotate before the aircraft clears the ground. >> that goes to maintenance record, finances of the company, thats why this speculation about whether or not they were paying the pilots factors into the analysis. the point of the heat signature, i want t...

Structural member being lost or a bomb on board. >> lets talk about what we do know about this particular planes structural integrity. this metrojet, the tail of this very plane struck a runway somehow in cairo in 2001. what would the connection between that incident and this crash, what could it possibly be? >> it would be the nature of the repair and how good the repair was. tail strikes happen several times a year in the united states alone. id probably say on estimate maybe every other month...

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...

Ing to goes back to 2001 when there was a tail strike on the aircraft when being operated but middle east airlines. now everybody we have spoken to says that the repair was done. it was done properly. and nobody has got any reason to doubt that except there have been examples of repairs such as this going wrong many years later. as for a mechanical failure, to get that sort of instant descent, youre looking at catastrophic failure or something in the way the plane was flown. >> richard quest, th...

Had one-off events fuel tank explosions, cargo door failures, things like that. >> there are horrific examples. crash of twa flight 800 in 1996 believed initially to be terrorism was later determined to have been an explosion of flammable vapors in a fuel tank. japan airlines flight 123, the 1985 crash considered the single deadliest accident in aviation history, more than 500 killed. it was determined that a previous tail strike had damaged the planes rear pressure bulkhead and the repair was f...

Plane was involved in some sort of a tail strike or the tail scraping the ground in cairo 14 years ago, and it was reportedly repaired by airbus itself. this is of course an airbus a-321 plane. so they will go back and look at who did the repairs, how thoroughly was it repaired and subsequently, have they done any thorough metallurgical examinations of the entire fuselage section that was repaired and that tail section to see whether there was any cracking because we have seen time and time agai...

Isis claimed responsibility for shooting the plane down. officials have dismissed that as impossible saying isis doesnt have the tools to do that. joining me is clive irving, author of "wide body." and a daily beast contributor. good to have you with us. lets talk about what you wrote about the fact in 2001 there was an injury, an accident with this plane, that may have doomed it in modern day. explain what happened then, how it was repaired and why that might be pivotal information now. >> what...

Nobodys mentioned this but there are a number of air forces operating generally in the area as well. so one cant discount the fact that it might have been shot down by another aircraft. i mean, im not saying that was the case, but, you know, clearly when an aircraft comes down suddenly like this its either going to be an explosive device or mechanical -- some mechanical destruction on the aircraft. people have mentioned the tail strike. thats clearly worth looking at. but it could also have been...

They are going to have to look very closely at whether that tail strike 14 years ago played a role in this accident or whether there might be some sort of explosive that was used to bring down this plane, or even crew error. all the possibilities are wide open right now. >> nbcs tom costello reporting in washington. thank you. want to move on to breaking news we have been following. a weeks long mystery surrounding a vessel lost at sea. the ntsb confirms wreckage found at the bottom of the oce...

Fact to the fact that this tail strike -- and it seemed to me that its quite possible that some kind of structural damage went or may have simply manifested itself very late after the last inspection and not been detected. >> wow, its an incredibly troubling thought, considering how much so many of us fly all the time. clive, thank you very much. for those of you who want to know, you can read clives article about exactly this today. just go to the dailybeast.com. thank you, clive. >> youre welc...