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>> what you have is confusion on top of concern, concern it might have happened, whether it was a bomb that took down the plane. thanks so much. >> all the folks in sharm el sheikh must be feeling right now. want to bring in our terrorism analyst and our accident inspect, david, the news that were getting from british intelligence, the idea that some kind of explosive was smuggled into the cargo hold on the plane, perhaps by a worker at the airport. explain to me, what layers of security exist...

Skirt security lines. imagine that sort of adds one more layer to this whole conversation. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. if this does in fact turn out to be a terrorist attack, this is certainly going to be a game changer. it will be a game changer on a few levels. certainly for the egyptian aviation industry, which is going to realize that it now has some serious vulnerabilities it has to address. more importantly for the egyptian government. no doubt the egyptian government has been dealing w...

Now there will be enhanced screenings from certain aurpts overseas to the united states. beyond that, how will this affect the rest of us? >> theres going to be a lot more scrutiny. after september 11th, we started to shore up all the holes to the extent that we could. we brought air marshals into the picture. we brought volunteer pilots with federal flight decks. were protecting the interior of the airplane. my fear has been the vulnerability of what can be brought on the cargo. its hard to con...

Items on aircraft, security assess. s aft foreign airports and offers to help with screening paroled our. while there are no direct flights to the u.s. from airports at sharm el-sheikh, homeland security says connecting flights and passengers and luggage are vulnerabilities. and this comes three weeks before thanksgiving, the traditionally busiest travel weekend. the decision to ramp up security was considered by the deputies committee, the most senior national security advisers to the president...

A bomb may have been placed in the cargoary of the doomed jet by someone working at the airport. any official investigation into what happened will take months and u.s. officials say all possible options, including a mechanical problem, have to remain on the table. team fox coverage now, greg palkot with the latest on the investigate from london, first, katherine herridge who has new details on u.s. security measures. >> the intense focus on procedures at overseas airports comes after u.s. and b...

Overseas but they were flights coming into the u.s. thats really where the concern is. >> reporter: u.s. officials stress there are already multiple layers of security to screen passengers before they ever get on a plane bound for the u.s., including checking all passengers and crew against the u.s. terror watch list. but vulnerabilities still exist. the insider threat is a major concern. >> employee vetting needs to be beefed up. once they hire these individuals, they need to keep continuing to...

>> nic robertson, appreciate it. cnn safety analyst david soucie joins us now. able miles obrien and former ntsb member john golia, john, if this was indeed a bomb on a commercial airliner does this mean a total reassessment of airport security not just in egypt but globally? >> of course it will. well look at our issues and there was just a report out in the last few days of problems with our own assessments at airports. so its going to cause a total review both in the united states and around ...

Much. just a couple of days ago a lawmaker called the tsa pitiful because of the sheer number of guns and fake bombs that slipped past security during covert testing. now the possibility that someone working at the airport in sharm el sheikh in egypt, a so-called insider, planted a real bomb, has security experts worried that all the body scanners and wands and metal detectors and shoe removals in the world will not be able to stop the next attack. cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh joins me ...

So far, theyve said theres no evidence of a bomb. the fracture is much different with a bomb than it would be with a structural failure of some kind. >> thats interesting. so, david if this were a bomb, since thats what some in the intelligence community believe it is, how far would it be from sharm el sheikh airport to get a bomb on the plane? >> well, you know, theres a lot of vulnerabilities in literally every airport throughout the world. those vulnerabilities are mitigated by various securi...

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