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Cairo. if there was possibly a tail malfunction this time mid-flight, could it cause a debris field like the one we're seeing? >> well, it could if the tail -- if a significant part of the tail came off or they had a rapid decompression at that flight level at 30,000 feet. and you would expect to see the plane come down in two distinct debris areas, which is the debris field that they have. and so that could explain it. people are going to be very skeptical of that because this plane should have been through several checks what they call c checks and d checks where that tail should have been i...

The area. >> thank you so much for weighing in, former british senior military office, michael kay. right now, we'll turn to ron mott. monitoring the situation from london. ron, what have you learned? >> good morning, again, dara. well, i'm looking at the flight returns, the radar returns and it would indicate to me as a pilot that before this plane lost its radar signal that there was some oscillating of the aircraft where it was doing one of these up in the air at flight level 27, up to flight level 30,000 feet in the air. obviously, something went wrong. we are getting reports from the as...

Militants led by an affiliate of isis. now, i don't want to inflate concern. i don't want to exaggerate what might have happened. but could there be a correlation here? >> there could be. i'm inclined not to think that right now. but it's still a course of action that we must consider. and i think that lufthansa and air france are bei in ing very prudent on what they're doing. >> there have been persistent media reports that this islamic group, again, led by an affiliate of isis has been able to obtain on the black market russian shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. but those missiles can't ...

Lufthansa and air trafrance hav decided not to send them over the sinai peninsula. the investigation will be an international investigation. officials from france, officials from russia, officials from egypt and germany as well, the aircraft maker, the engine makers are all going to get together and piece together what happened here. but it appears that this plane had a normal takeoff and had reached altitude in the midlevel flight level, 35,000 feet and something went wrong and it will be a matter of time before we find out. they discovered one of the black boxes and as we go forward the focu...

Ground. the plane split upon impact and according to reuters there are possible survivors of the crash. 224 people on board this aircraft, 217 of them passengers. the seven crew members also aboard and as this plane was heading to the st. petersburg, russia, we believe most if not all were vacationers who were going home from a vacation there in the resort city of sharm el sheikh when they crashed 23 minutes after takeoff. listening to your guests talk about the stall, i'm a pilot and i can tell you at that flight level, a stall with an plane of that size and that heavy with fuel is difficult ...