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Did it come from? there's a cargo. there's approved shippers. with approved shippers, these baggages that are shipped, they are not screened because the shipper takes full responsibility for those packages so they screen them on their side which is not within the safety umbrella of this security itself. that's that you notice that tom is talking a lot about the tail area and the tail section where the cargo hold is. that is where the repair was done after the tail strike as well. i'm still not over the fence as far as bomb versus bad repair on this tail section. >> and david, before we go, wou...

Suspended flights to sharm el-sheikh where that metrojet flight departed en route to russia. the airbus went down saturday killing all 224 people on board. let me bring in the msnbc terrorist analyst and a director of middle eastern and north africa research analysis. lathe, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> this is interesting because isis claimed responsibility just hours after the crash. many discounted those claims initially, but maybe not. >> well, you know, it seems that they jumped to the conclusion that isis faction in the sinai may have shot it down using surface-to-air missile ...

British travelers, but the truth in all of this is going emerge through whose investigation and as she points out is it the black box and then corrupted and then to get the cockpit voice recorder. >> yeah, absolutely. this is essential to come up with the conclusion and all speculation again and whether it's from the british officials and the american officials and it's all speculation and they're saying that likely it's a bomb because they don't have the capacity to down it using a surface missile. they do not have the capacity. we have two other scenarios. one a bomb squabd or one that the p...

Coming up with more sophisticated devices. he's been experimenting, it is believed, with new generations of shoe bombs and new generations of underwear bombs. >> and brian todd joins us. now, what more are you learning about the airbus' tail? >> anderson, in the course of reporting on this incident over the past couple of days, we've learned that this very same aircraft in november of 2001 had what's called a tail strike. in that incident, it was landing in cairo. it was operated by another airline at the time. it was landing in cairo and the nose was too high. so, the tail struck the tarmac a...

After it struck the runway but it was repaired. could have contributed to this crash? >> actually, the length of time can add to it. if the repair was made improper then the stress fractures could cause it to fail. but you know, based upon the pictures i have seen and that's not the best pictures and the best way to look at it, it doesn't appear that that pressure bulkhead failed. but if they had enough of a tail strike we may have weakened the structure somewhere else like the picture on the screen right here where the inspection is. if the structure was weakened there and had cracks in that ...