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The pilots bring in with a nose high at theitude. and they strike it before the wheels take the weight of the plane. this plane had a tail strike in the past. it was said to repair by air bus up to industry standards. and there was a bomb in the cargo hold. i suppose there might have been weak spots and might have made the tail snap off. >> techally you wanted to disable an airplane. you don't need an incendiary equipment. and it is a small one in the place of the tail cone near the tail. and once it took out the controls, the airplane was just going to be junked. there was no way to control w...

Tail would be intact and would you see that rupture of the fuel tank. >> let's look at the plane's tail. that was the last piece they were focusing on today on the ground. it was found separated from other pieces of the plane. it was the largest single piece of wreckage that was found. taking that into account, taking its location separate from the rest of the wreckage, what do you conclude? >> i also saw very key piece which was a tail cone which the apu fresh out of the factory looks different. i stared at those photos trying to see if there were burn marks. in some photos, looks like there ...

Unfortunately, ntsb investigates a lot of accidents where things weren't bad until someone ran off the end of the runway. >> miles, the plane slides did not deploy. that's kind of disturbing, too. >> well it appears you see that tail cone is missing. it appears the rear slide, there was a deployment there. if you look at the forward doors, it's not an advantageous place to get out of the plane because the fence and the berm and everything else. so the idea that passengers had to go through those doors over the wing and shimmy down the extended flaps would be the course of action. however, i wi...

Circular object, green in color. take a look at the remnants of asiana crash 214 that went down in san francisco over the summer. look at the tail section here. that crash, a 777, just like -- very much like the malaysian air flight, if you take a look at another angle of it, right there at the tail cone, the tail snapped off, the vertical and horizontal stabilizer snapped off but there you have a circular structure, green in color. is that what we've seen bobbing in the indian ocean? we don't know. but there are indications, at least, that some of the debris that they are starting to find may...