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It sounds like it is not going to be something that comes in this particular accident. >> the tail strike is when the airports are over the run weigh, the pilots dont get the nose up too high making a soft landing to impress the passengers and they strike the tail. but in this situation, it locks like the belly of the aircraft strike that doik and once that happen nothing would save them. >> thank you for joining us. and we appreciate the insight. >> and continuing coverage of the crash landing ...

To burn even after the evacuation of the planes. the latest pictures show a total loss. the fuselage of the airplane consumed by fire. the critical thing to look at are the wings, if not separated, they have been twisted away. the engines have detached as well as the tail section. that leads open a huge range of possibilities. the airplane at a high range. made a tail strike. very unclear. this is incredible popular safe plane. the boeing 777 made in the mid-1990s. they have sold a ton of them. ...

The runway. so where the tail is is short of the runway, never mind the thousand feet hes supposed to have before he comes in. kpleer clearly, hes out of control there because the nose went up and the tail tipped back. so that presents the normal kind of landing and causes that tail strike. >> peter goals is back with us, managing director of the ntsb. pete, again and pardon me if im -- >> thank you very much. >> thank you, bob. >> peter, are you there? >> yes, i am. >> pete, i cant recall wheth...

>> there were two suicides in the wake of this incident, a japan airlines employee who was working with victim families. and an inspector who issued the certificate of airworthiness for the doomed plan after the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. weve seen the disastrous results of airplanes not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123, american flight 191, aloha flight 243. weve also seen...

They knew it had departed the plane early. you ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems and the loss of a vertical fin. >> looking at the planes maintenance history, investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the planes tail dragged along the runway in an accident known as a tail strike. >> the tail strike wit...

Plane stable is fished out of the bay 100 miles away from the mountain. >> it was quite a distance from the crash site. it departed the plane early. you ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems and the loss of a vertical fin. >> investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the planes tail dragged along the runwa...

Or maintenance related? >> it pain meese to say this but i think we are finding more and more where it is repair related. >> there were at least two suicides in the wake of the incident. japan airlines employee who was working with victims families and an inspection engineer who issued a certificate of air worthyness for the doomed plane a of the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we have seen the disastrous results o...

>> quite a distance from the crash site. so they gnaw it had departed the airplane earlier. now you begin to ask the question -- what could cause a decompression, control problems and loss of a vertical fin. >> reporter: looking at the planes maintenance history investigators learned there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. thats the structure at the back of a cabin that keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. with the manes tail accidentally drag...

Aft bulkhead. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the planes tail accidently dragged along the runway in an incident known as a tail strike. >> a tail strike can occur on takeoff where the airplane is on the run way and beginning its climb or on landing when the tail is in a nose high attitude, either way its going to create damage. >> the repair is problematic. the structure is so large, 15 feet across, the airplane was built around it originally. to make the fix, boeing removes t...

Maintenance quality and we dont have any of that information yet. so the russian civil authority will certainly be looking at the maintenance records of the airplane to see if there had been any previous problems with it. there are some reports that are not yet confirmed that this particular airplane had a tail strike earlier at some point in its career, but thats several years ago. that probably doesnt mean anything. it was a bit of history. but beyond that, thats all we have at this point. >> ...