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Expected to reveal any major conclusions. jon? jon: christina coleman, christina, thank you. an american airlines mechanic is accused of sabotaging a flight over stalled union contract negotiations. on july 17th, a flight from miami to the bahamas was aborted when pilots received an error message right before take off. they later discovered someone had tampered with the plane's navigation system. the employee told authorities he did not intend to harm the aircraft or the 150 people on board. he has since been fired and is now charged with willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircra...

Tourist died after plunging 500 feet down rocky terrain from the cables in the park's iconic half dome she's identified as 29-year-old danielle burnett of arizona the half dome is well-known among hikers and has cables installed to guide them up the final summit tonight, an american airlines mechanic is facing federal charges of sabotage accused of tampering with equipment on a plane set to fly from miami this summer. nbc's tom costello tells us more. >> reporter: in a miami courtroom today, 60-year-old abdul alani, a 31-year veteran mechanic a american airlines, federal air marshals allege ...

Plane that had 150 people onboard is due to appear in federal court. he tried to disable the aircraft's navigation system before takeoff at miami international airport. we have cnn aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh here with us. luckily the pilots caught this issue but it was just before takeoff, right? >> yeah. >> it's very scary. what happened? >> let's set the scene. this plane is actually on the runway. it's traveling down the runway. you have 150 people onboard. and then an error message. the pilots realize that something is wrong. fast forward to once this plane...

Flight crew at risk. why he did that? that's going to be part of this investigation. >> until the airplane was on the roll, as in rolling down to take off until the pilot got some sort of error message and aborted the flight. what would have happened had the pilot not heeded that warning? >> well, first of all, the pilot probably could have flown power and pitch and been okay. but he would have had -- or she would have had erroneous flight data information, including air speed information. they probably would have had to fly, you know, the flight manually. and what they did is the right thick....

Was traveling down the runway. >> it was. >> it was right -- it had already been cleared for takeoff and was beginning its takeoff. >> passengers onboard, crew on board, they are ready to go. miami international airport is actually a hub for the airline. these pilots, they saw the error message, they realized something was wrong, and they aborted that takeoff. but had this plane gone up in the air, we know that planes have a lot of redundancy systems. however, this would have created an issue for pilots in that there would be critical information about the altitude, about the speed of the plan...