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A russian airliner with more than 220 people on board has crashed in egypt's sinai peninsula. the plane an airbus a' -- a-321 took off from sharm el sheikh headed for st. petersburg, russia, just before 6:00 a.m. local time. it disappeared from radar 23 minutes after takeoff. the egyptian aviation officials say it had reported technical difficulties before losing contact with the air traffic controllers. the rescuers are at the scene. now to turn to politic and a reunion. jeb bush and marco rubio are making their pitch to voter at the iowa gop growth and opportunity party in des moines today...

Through. for instance, the actual acre, itself, initial reports say it's an a-321, now egyptians say it was an airbus 380. i find that less likely with that number of passengers. so we have that level of confusion we have to be careful about. there there is this report of potential survivors, it came out at 31,000 feet. if you look at the rate of dissent of the aircraft, it's vertical rate of dissent, it seems highly unlikely there were survivors. again, that's the l. of confusion, then have you the effort of did the pilot make some calls saying that he was, there were technical problems or he...

Separated. cruise altitude is very difficult. there is a difference between piloting skills and the automation of today's aircraft. the a-321 is a fully automated plane. pilots don't hand fly at cruise altitude very much. there have been cases in the past. the air france 447 which occurred at cruise altitude. they had technical issues. a speed indicator was off and they could not diagnose it. it will be interesting to see how the cruise, from the voice recorder, addressed whatever problems they had. >> that last point, they may not be able to diagnose it, may explain why you hear a pilot say, ...

In the northern region of sinai. what we can tell you, there were 217 passengers, 17 of those children along with seven crew members. and what might be interesting if the black boxes, when they are recovered, if the pilot did in fact transmit some sort of trouble in flight, what specifically was that trouble? i have been looking over the radar returns here from flight data -- flight radar 24, one of online websites that you can follow and track flights in realtime. and this plane seemed to be at a rather level altitude at under 31,000 feet when something went wrong and suddenly the plane start...

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