CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow November 1, 2015 23:03:00
>> reporter: that's a good question. i mean, there were a couple of strands of the investigation under way at the moment. one of them is certainly that some kind of, you know, maintenance issue, some kind of problem with the pilots could have been a factor. in fact, metrojet, have been in the past, castigated, criticized by the russian government for their maintenance issues, in a different kind of aircraft, fff-154 which is an old russian-type aircraft. back in 2010/2011, that whole fleet of airlines -- airplanes was grounded because of a problem with fires breaking out in them. and that was ...