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Continues to find out exactly what brought this plane down, airlines and their governments have some big decisions to make regarding safety. cnn's brian todd has this report. >> reporter: a disturbing finding -- the downing of the plane appears to be no accident. sounds from the cockpit voice recorder report an explosion. analysis from the flight data recorder reporting no signal of a mechanical problem. the officials tell france 2 the voice recorder shows everything is fine during the first 24 minutes of flight. then in a fraction of a second, a blackout. >> clearly that points to evidence th...

By the co-pilot of that plane bringing the plane down, crashing it into the sea, the egyptians simply rejected the findings of the ntsb. i think this lack of trust perhaps between egyptian and american officials goes back many, many years. >> nothing new there. ben wedeman, thank you very much. we'll focus closer in a moment on the real state of security in sham el sheikh, talking to someone that ran most of the challenging terror operations. first, more on what to make of the intelligence picture tonight. joining us is former fbi super vicery special agent ally sufan and former federal assist...

Ha see see to power, the relationship between washington and cairo has been rather pickly or stormy perhaps, and that's perhaps one reason. but i can tell you, i was here in october, november 1999 after the downing of egypt air flight 990 after taking off from jfk and back then there was a lot of tension between the egyptian and american investigators into the cause of that crash and when the ntsb came out with their final report on that crash, which of course was caused according to the ntsb by the co-pilot of that plane bringing the plane down, crashing it into the sea, the egyptians simply ...

U.k. officials said that it's a possibility. islamic state and the sinai say they took the plane down, they have a history of making exaggerated claims and russian officials have been denying. for the time being we should wait for the investigation and work with egyptian partners before we jump to conclusions but it does raise a couple points. one, vladimir put seasin is a f spy. he wants his control at home to continue to get more support for his policies abroad. there is no doubt about that. two, the islamic state is present in the sinai of egypt. america has hundreds of troops there as part...

Did, in fact, bring this plane down, it would be the group's most deadly attack outside iraq and a marked change in its at that time tactics. do you think it will change if it's confirmed that it was isis that carried this terrorist attack out? >> well, we have to look at where this attack occurred. in the -- you know, in the country of egypt, an ally of ours, we have to stress when we see things like this originating not just now from iraq and syria, that this is an international -- this is a global issue. and the international community has got to work together to degrade and destroy isis. >...