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Undetected. some kind of a problem with the tail could have gone undetected. so, with the new information tonight that the tail is somewhat apart from the rest of the wreckage, that could bear out some possible theory that maybe that particular tail strike in november 2001 could have had a bearing on what happened on saturday. >> all right, brian, thank you very much. we bring in our experts from brian todd's report and aviation expert and former transportation mary sciavo. paul, do you think terror could be a prime -- >> i'm pretty skeptical it's criticism at this point. no full throttle clai...

If it is, this would go down as one of the biggest loss of life since 9/11 at the hands of terrorism. and i do want to make this point. we don't have any u.s. official definitively saying this was a bomb. we have u.s. officials saying there's evidence it may have been a bomb. there's still the other possibility, and that is that this was a result of a catastrophic break-up in air that may have been the result, for example, of that tail strike on the runway in cairo 14 years ago, and then a repair made to the plane, which then, if it wasn't done properly, might have come apart. so the only reas...

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...

From that analysis. >> it could be very soon, sharm el sheikh, thanks so much. >> the 224 victims of the crash. officials in st. petersburg say 33 bodies have been identified so far. today, nationalists mourn the victims of the country's annual day of national -- let's turn to nic robertson. >> reporter: well, another tough day for the families of victims, the process of identifying the bodies continues. what they are hearing in russian media at the moment, two different versions of potentially what killed their loved ones, did the plane break apart in the air because the tail section fell off...

Underneath the bottom of the fuse lodge. so, once you disrupt that flow of primary structure moving the stresses into an area want it to go into, those will go into an area of the fuselage and it will actually self-destruct. >> the same plane back in 2001 suffered daniel on the tail after it struck the runway and it was repaired. is it possible that could have contributed to that crash or is it so long ago that that wouldn't play a role? >> no, actually, the length of time can actually add to it if the repair was made improperly, then the stress fractures that could result in that pressure bul...