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We have several thousand controlled airports.% and if you look at all of our airports in total, we probably have 16,000 airports. so there are lots of airports without anzw air traffic contr tower. but for a problem where you're coming in to land and you're below where you should be on altitude usually it's not a problem with an air traffic control tower. they were lined up for the runway. they were simply too low. i think they'll be looking at controlled flight into terrain, which is pilot error, or some problem with the engine given what earwitnesses and eyewitnesss have said and that pilot...

This accident. >> joining me now cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo. mary, you heard the official saying they'll look into weather, the jet company's ceo said he would be surprised to hear this would be because of pilot error. no distress calls. pilots were well seasoned. what kinds of questions would you be asking? >> statistically, if you look at the cause of accidents in this situation, your thoughts first go to something call control flight into terrain, often described to loss of pilot situational awareness or literally pilot disorientation. what that means is, when you're in bad weather -...

Such as a malfunction or a pilot error or something of that nature. >> meaning, if i could stop you there, just meaning just to help elaborate on that point you're making because it's a beautiful point. you're saying if there is a lack of dialogue between pilots or any radioing of we've got a problem or trying to, you know, trying to fix a problem, that would be recorded and that may lead to something. but if that isn't there, that makes it that much more complicated? >> that's right. exactly. it shows that up until that last second, everything was fine, which is evidence also by the data reco...

>> reporter: the ntsb determined first officer deliberately crashed the plane. the final seconds from the data recorder, you can hear him saying, "i rely on god" and begging him to help him pull up before the recording ends. this wasn't the only time in egyptian and western investigators delivered over the cause of the crash. >> in 2004, there was an accident off of sharm el-sheikh, a 737 crash. the bea, the french and the americans indicated that they believed it was pilot error. the egyptians did not agree and blamed it on some sort of mechanical failure. >> reporter: and other countries mak...

Adds to all the other comments that have been made about this flight since the very beginning. russians saying it was not pilot error or mechanical error making assumptions. the security not only in the airport where the passengers are but as you said, where the baggage handlers are and transporters are, where the cargo beds go into. those should be places to check but having been in sharm el-sheikh a few years ago and talking to some individuals who have been there recently as part of the multinational observer mission. inside the airport you'll see a lot of armed guards like most countries, ...