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Egypt killing all 224 people on board? investigators, they're slowly ruling out reasons and here's what we know so far at this hour. a ministry of aviation source tells nbc news that the pilot did not make a distress call. the plane broke up in midair and metrojet ruled out technical failure as a cause and the russians disputing that. here's billneely in cairo for us. >> reporter: they have the flight recorders and working on them here in cairo all day and we understand that russian and egyptian investigators downloaded the data from those recorders, the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data...

>> all right. we shall see what happens this friday. carly fiorina is scheduled to appear on "the view". on the democratic side of things, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley are getting set for their next face-off which happens in south carolina this friday, november 6th. candidates forum will be moderated by rachel maddow. coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. next, an official looking into the crash of that russian plane says it was not caused by technical problems or human error. why did it suddenly break apart in air? we are live with the latest. plus t...

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 again, the tiniest hairline fractures you might not even see to the eye can turn out to be catastrophic....

Isis claimed responsibility for shooting the plane down. officials have dismissed that as impossible saying isis doesn't 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. let's 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 happened in 2001 was the plane made what's called a tail strike which means it came in to land an...

Underwent the usual regular checks right up until now and obviously nothing was found that suggested that there was any lingering problem from that impact. but i've related that to the fact that the evidence from the wreckage strewn all over the sinai is that the tail broke off from the rest of the plane and the two parts fell separately so with the combination of broken off tail and that anomaly in the airplane's history it would be natural for any investigator to look first, what an investigator starts looking at is history of the plane and this pops out from the history of the plane as bein...