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Where the tail hit the runway. whoa don't know if that would have played into it at all. it's like li lie likely the pla would have been repaired and inspected. there's a lot of worthiness about the this plane. >> our daughter chatted with him before the flight. he complained before the flight that one could wish for better technical condition of the plane. >> rosemary, we know according to the civil aviation minister this plane was inspected before it flew. we also know that the pilot didn't complain of any technical problems. the egyptian government said if those were brought up, that they w...

Investigation? >> reporter: well, i'm outside the main morgue here in cairo where bodies are still being stored. we had those 144 go to st. petersburg. 187 bodies now have been recovered. there's still 30 bodies out there in the desert waiting to be recovered. crews are still out there searching not only for the bodies but trying to search for clues. this is a large area. this is about 20 square kilometers that they're going over and looking for evidence, and we've seen in some of this video that as the very rugged area, also you're seeing pieces scattered everywhere. what we heard from a russ...

Brought down this plane. now, how they would do that is also being raised, because they technically just do not have the fire power to launch a missile or the ability to do it to bring down a plane that's traveling over 30,000 feet. so a lot of people are thinking this is just isis trying to be opportunistic. there are other ways they could have done it. and these are things that investigators are going to be looking into, potentially, was a bomb on board? we don't know, and these are things that investigators, like i said, will be looking into. but this part of sinai, the north central part, ...

Is also in egypt and later today an irish team will be on the ground, helping the the egyptians through this. those black boxes are in cairo. now we heard from richard quest who said that he was unsure that egypt would have the ability, the technical abilities to decipher these black boxes. that could be why the irish has been brought in. they're going to be trying to figure out the moment right before the plane disappeared from radar, and what happened afterward. we heard from the russians that the plane had broken apart in mid flight and there was some talk that there was a problem with the ...

>> mubarak thought he could wreck the revolution by putting egypt on information lockdown. so he literally shut down the internet. >> nora younis is a reporter for the "egypt independent," an online and print news source. on the morning of january 28th, nora and a colleague hear about a hotel in central cairo that still has internet service. they try to get a room with a view of tahrir square. >> they said they have orders from state security not to sell any rooms overlooking tahrir. so we said okay and we settled for a nile view room. >> while organizing their coverage of the day's events, no...