killed. according to a senior defense official, an american satellite detected a heat flash in the vicinity of the metro jet crash at the same time been u.s. gel slens analyst blooes a fuel tank or bomb could have caused an explosion on the plane. investigatoring have recovered the plane flight data and cog hit voice recorders. tonight, experts are examining a number of possibilities of the crash. metro jet s deputy director said they ruled out human area reporter and technical problems and the only possible explanation is external impact on the plane. but the head of russia s federal air transportation agency says the claim is premature and isn t based on any real facts. and then there is a local group affiliate with isis that claimed it downed the plane. egypt and russia have dismissed that saying islamic militants in the air don t have the military capability to shoot down a plane flying at that at tuld. the u.s. has not ruled out terrorism but intelligence analysts say there is no
detected a heat flash in the vicinity of the metro jet crash at the same time been u.s. intelligent analyst believes a fuel tank or bomb could have caused an explosion on the plane. investigatoring have recovered the plane flight data and cog hit voice recorders. tonight, experts are examining a number of possibilities of the crash. metro jet s deputy director said they ruled out human area reporter and technical problems and the only possible explanation is external impact on the plane. but the head of russia s federal air transportation agency says the claim is premature and isn t based on any real facts. and then there is a local group affiliate with isis that claimed it downed the plane. egypt and russia have dismissed that saying islamic militants in the air don t have the military capability to shoot down a plane flying at that altitude. the u.s. has not ruled out terrorism but intelligence analysts say there is no indication that a surface-to-air missile brought down the plane.
go down there on reconnaissance missions to see if there s anybody down there. but on the ground, the army itself rarely goes in and in particular in this area where the plane apparently went down. the army doesn t ever go there. colonel jack jacob, thank you. we ll be back in a few more minutes. to recap what s going on, egypt s prime minister s office has confirmed there was a crash of the airbus, carrying more than 200 passengers. russia s air transportation agency said it was supposed to contact air traffic control in cyprus but it never did. the flight radar 24 lost coverage 23 minutes into the flight as the airplane descended. how, we are getting reports from egypt this have been wreckage, bodies and possible survivors. we ll take a quick break and we ll be back after this with more information as we cover this air crash.
airline carrying more than 200 passengers. roughly 200 adults. 17 children and 7 crew members. russia s federal air transportation agency says the airbus was supposed to contact air traffic control in cyprus but it never did. there are reports that the airliner had descended about 6,000 feet before the flight radar 24 lost coverage. and that was only about 23 minutes into the flight. so right now, we are going to go to anthony roman who is our aviation investigator, and mr. roman, if you d be so kind as to tell us, this is an airbus 321. it s only 18 years old. not to speculate, but it s the middle of the day. what do you think possibly could have happened on this flight? well, you know, dara, that is not a terribly old aircraft. but there has been a lot of criticism about the fly by wire airbus. now, simply what that means is that the pilot has no direct