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>> you participated in that investigation, peter, right. >> i did. >> egyptians never accepted publicly the u.s. conclusion that it was pilot suicide that brought that plane down, right. >> officially, their position is, that it was some sort of mechanical failure with the elevator which we thought the ntsb thought that was foolishness, it was clear what was happening to the aircraft. >> you used to work for the ntsb. there still bad blood, you think, between the u.s. and egypt as far as aviation investigations are concerned? >> i think there may be some residual resentment over that for all o...

Crumbles. republicans failing to agree on demands for future debates. who pulled back and what it means for the race moving forward. welcome back to "early start." i'm miguel marquez. >> i'm alison kosik. happening now. searching for cause of the crash of metrojet flight 9268. a heat flash over the sinai peninsula. that infrared flash coming at the same time the russian jet on the way from the egyptian resort to st. petersburg plummeting to earth. the flash is significant, but by itself, does not prove or disproved claims that this was a terror attack. for the latest on the investigation, let'...

Qaeda syrian affiliate al nusra front, called for jihad against russia for a spate of air strikes aimed at anti-assad groups. and while he didn't mention the crash in the sinai, overnight, al qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri issued this call to arms, ordering lone wolves to attack all countries fighting muslims, including russia. >> the russian intervention in syria has turbo-charged the global jihadi movement. historically, nothing has unified this movement more than their shared confrontation with russia. >> reporter: and tonight, despite u.s. sources saying there is satellite evidence suggest...

Of exe ploeives, so there are a lot of mysteries as to what brought this plane down, ashleigh. >> and arwa, if you will stand by, because there is some intelligence working in from our sources here. and evan, we know that there were several investigative options to come up with the theories so far, and what are the americans basing their knowledge on in the early stage? >> well, they have a lot of access to a lot of information from egyptians and the russians. they have looked at the radar the, and the satellites, and looked at the photos from the scene of the crash. they know that they have s...

A human being had to direct this plane. there were too many twists and turns to its flight path. >> basically, peter, you're saying it wasn't a mcal failure or anything like that? this was a deliberate act by someone or some people in that cockpit to take that plane down, whether it was pilot suicide, co-pilot suicide. somebody else wanted to take that plane down for whatever reason? >> i think that's the only conclusion you can come to at this point. there's a lot of discussion about a fire in the e & eba bay. the electronics bay. it doesn't explain the performance of the plane as to what hap...