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That incident is still under investigation. >> we've had two incidents in less than two years, and the question is, is it a maintenance problem with southwest? is it a design problem with the manufacturer? or is it some new failure mode that we didn't know about that comes when the airplanes begin to get old? >> and linzie janis with us live tonight from philadelphia. and linzie, we were all trying to remember the last time there was a deadly incident involving a domestic plane. i remember being on the scene in buffalo, new york, that was the last deadly incident in 2009? >> reporter: that's r...

>> reporter: this is what airports hoped to avoid during the thanksgiving rush. >> we didn't expect the tsa line to be this long. >> reporter: in denver, these long lines because the trains to the terminals shut down. >> they need to figure this out. >> reporter: they did hours later. it was a broken sensor. and we're told that flights were able to get out without incident. this is what thanksgiving travel looks like. packed planes. 3% more flyers this year than last. and this is what just a couple hours looks like in the thanksgiving rush at charlotte international, where we went onto the tar...

Maintenance, or on operations. >> but doesn't -- >> you've got to do those things together. >> is understood but the fact they say it suffered a staring casualty, doesn't that say is suffered a maintenance problem? >> as i said, we've been running these ships hard but one of the ways to keep from running these ships so hard, no matter how well you maintain them, is they're going to have mechanical problems unless you have the time, unless you have the ability to have enough ships out there, and so building the fleet had to be the first priority. maintaining the fleet also had to be right there...

Jets. and back in 2001, it had the accident as well sh, and the ta hits before it takes off from the runway before it belonged to another airline, and middle eastern airlines and that is repaired. they were going to be look gingt the safety procedures on the airline, and whether the maintenance situation was up to standard. and already there is a press conference by senior management of metro jet to say, look, they don't believe it was maintenance or technical problems that could have been responsible for such a catastrophic end. catastrophic failure for the flight over the skies of sinai, and...

Because of the economic crisis here, so that all stacks up to circumstantial evidence that it could have been a maintenance problem that was at the root of this, but again we just don't have the evidence at our fingertips at the moment. it's a strong possibility, but it's not the only possibility when it comes to learning about the face of the 224 people who were killed on that metro jet plane. >> it certainly isn't. matthew, thank you very much. matthew chance reporting for us live. we're joined by actualtulsi gabbard. thanks for joining us. james clapper says he wouldn't rule out the possi...