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Afterwards putting it together? it s horrific. what can you tell us about this crash? reporter: alex, this is such a sad story, and people are going to be asking, why did this happen? because this was a brand-new boeing 737, less than six months old. it lost contact with radar just six minutes after taking off. it crashed about 30 miles from the airport. and when you look at the model here, a boeing 737 max 8, this is the same aircraft model that was involved in another crash in indonesia back in october, that lion air crash. that plane also crashed 12 minutes after takeoff. 189 people on board were killed. so a lot of questions for boeing this morning. they have tweeted they are aware of reports of this accident. meanwhile, the prime minister has tweeted out his condolences. now, the airline says there are casualties, but they also tweeted that there was a search-and-rescue operation ongoing. so it s unclear just exactly what s happened. we heard from that man earlier, finding out o ....
That aircraft model has only been flying since 2009. the age of the plane, certainly, investigators don t believe is necessarily a factor. they say that right now, they re looking on the one hand possible mechanical failure and laooking at possible pilot error. they re also not ruling out the factor that the weather might have been a factor. this morning in moscow, there were some pretty heavy snowstorms going over the area, certainly caused some disruption in flights anyway. that s one of the things that the investigators are looking at. but as you say, it is still very early in the investigation. one of the bright spots has been that they discovered that flight data recorder, where they hope to get some new information from that, as well. pretty difficult work for the recovery rcrews. i m right here at the scene. they have a lot of specialized equipment and they re having to move a lot of snow out of the area, as well. because it was that big snowstorm going on. and obviously, very d ....
reporter: hi, john. there s going to be extensive testing. one of the things we do know is even though some malaysian politicians are saying they re pretty certain this is a piece of a 777, the folks here are going to want forensic proof that is, indeed, the case. not only that, they re also going to want to prove that it is, indeed, a piece of mh-370 if, indeed, that is what it is. what they re going to do first of all when the piece of the wreckage arrives is they re going to look at it very carefully, take it apart, be looking at any sort of numbers that are printed on the inside or anywhere on that piece of debris and see whether it matches the aircraft model and also whether it matches mh-370 in particular, and then one of the other things they do here as well is metal test. they have some sophisticated equipment here. some of the most sophisticated in all of europe and they re going to be testing not only the metal itself but also the paint, of course, to see if it matches, the ....
Crash that we ve heard a lot about have been more airbus than boeing so to speak. but statistically there s not a huge difference. i think depending on the aircraft model and the flight model. some models of boeing have a better track record than airbus models. but it s not statistically significant. couldn t just say that airbus is a lot worse than boeing. although for some models because of recent accidents, their statistics are a little bit off. but the airbus has been flown everywhere. they re all over the united states. you couldn t avoid them if you wanted to. they re well established and a safe plane. we re talking about the fact that it has been confirmed that a distress call was received. we ve been on the air talking about flights that were lost where a distress call was not issued. they did not have a chance to do that. how does that help you paint a picture of what happened here mary? it s tremendously helpful. ....