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Tail can hit the ground and the aircraft comes up. or during landing it can occur as well. a tail strike typically occurs during takeoff when you're getting too aggressive about your climb and your vr, rotating speed, is anticipated and you start to rotate before the aircraft clears the ground. >> that goes to maintenance record, finances of the company, that's why this speculation about whether or not they were paying the pilots factors into the analysis. the point of the heat signature, i want to make sure it doesn't mean. when it came out, it sounded like they have proof that something fire...

Structural member being lost or a bomb on board. >> let's talk about what we do know about this particular plane's structural integrity. this metrojet, the tail of this very plane struck a runway somehow in cairo in 2001. what would the connection between that incident and this crash, what could it possibly be? >> it would be the nature of the repair and how good the repair was. tail strikes happen several times a year in the united states alone. i'd probably say on estimate maybe every other month we have a major plane with a tail strike. it depends on how it's repaired. now if this plane had...

Joining us now is d.j. frost, international commercial airline pilot. d.j., the head of the russian safety agency, i'm sorry, of the airline says the company is ruling out a technical fault of the plane or pilot error. is it a little early to be doing that? >> good morning, jon. thank you for having me back, and i believe it is. i believe it is early to be lending any speculation that it's not some technical in that that plane did have a severe tail strike ten yearsing a. they say it was fixed, however, we don't know. we don't know about the records until the investigation continues. jon: just...

Ing to goes back to 2001 when there was a tail strike on the aircraft when being operated but middle east airlines. now everybody we have spoken to says that the repair was done. it was done properly. and nobody has got any reason to doubt that except there have been examples of repairs such as this going wrong many years later. as for a mechanical failure, to get that sort of instant descent, you're looking at catastrophic failure or something in the way the plane was flown. >> richard quest, thank you so much. while the world is really scrambling to figure out exactly what happened to this...

Had one-off events fuel tank explosions, cargo door failures, things like that. >> there are horrific examples. crash of twa flight 800 in 1996 believed initially to be terrorism was later determined to have been an explosion of flammable vapors in a fuel tank. japan airlines flight 123, the 1985 crash considered the single deadliest accident in aviation history, more than 500 killed. it was determined that a previous tail strike had damaged the plane's rear pressure bulkhead and the repair was faul faulty. a similar thing happened to this russian aircraft. in 2001 this plane's tail struck a r...