now to the russian airplane disaster. each day appears to bring a greater degree of certainty from the experts on the theory that the jet was blown out of the sky by a bomb. senior foreign affairs correspondent, greg palkothas the latest from london. reporter: consensus continues to build toward terrorism bringing down that russian plane. one u.s. official saying he s 90% certain it was an isis bomb. ear claims russian officials being monitored are thinking the same. israeli prime minister netanyahu says it seems reasonable that it was an act of terror. even an egyptian prober is leaning that way. based on the information we ve already learned, we can t rule out the possibility of terrorist involvement. reporter: while egypt said an explosion was heard on the voice recorder, further analysis will be needed to nail it as a bomb. inspection of the wreckage for
engine on fire! reporter: passengers on planes nearby capture the chaos. 17 people injured in the melee were hospitalized, including one child and a trauma patient. most of them are musculoex l musculoskelet musculoskeletal. everybody was nervous and shaken up. attention in the airport. reporter: the incident closing ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport for hours, leading to 219 flight delays and 43 canceled flights. a few hours after the incident, the airport partially re-opened this morning. we ve learned that both runways are back up and running here at ft. lauderdale international airport. chris? thank you very much. let s bring in cnn aviation analyst mary see ochiavo. she s an attorney that represents victims and families after airplane disasters. let s combine those two fortes
on tuesday, a task force will begin work here in germany and that task force s job will be to pick apart every aspect of this investigation from the crash itself to andreas lubitz and how he was chenged ocked out in the and months and weeks before this crash that allowed him to get in the pock kit and fly that plane with 149 innocent people into the french alps. larry schiavo works for families and victims after airplane disasters. good morning, mary. how unusual is it that investigators have left the scene and it s barely two weeks after the crash? well, it s unusual in that ordinarily, they are looking for the cause of the crash and many times in these accident investigates or in this case intentional crash investigations, you have to get so much more of the aircraft because you have to piece it together. it s pretty typically when you re looking for the cause to
families after airplane disasters. i want to talk specifically, if you will mary about that crossing because we know both of these accidents happened at crossings. this is an unusual one. wasn t right angles and perpendicular so that could have played a portion, this tractor was trying to make this tough turn and got stuck. what else sticks out to you in this incident? well, this incident will be one of the things we call the department of transportation a rail crossing geometry problem, and what that means is literally where the train crosses the highway in such a situation that there is an intersection and not a clear, straight 90-degree intersection perfect pen dikpendicular crossing of the rail over the highway, that makes the crossing difficult. why? because sometimes it s hard to see the train and sometimes exactly as here traffic makes it difficult for the vehicles to clear off the track. where you have a stop sign on
dragged it. couldn t believe what i was seeing. we went on a 45-degree angle. lights went out. stuff starting flying everywhere. p metro link officials are new passenger cars designed to surviving crashes for saving lives. our ultimate goal is to find out what happened and why it happened that s what we re in the business of doing. finding out what happened so we can keep things like this from happening again. the train engineer was among those who received the worst injuries. was severe trauma to his heart and lungs, it can take half a mile to stop a train. apparently in this case they didn t see the truck far enough ahead of the stop. dan simon, we appreciate it. we want to turn to mary ski i have ao. former inspector-general for the department of transportation and an attorney who represents families after airplane disasters. i want to start talking to you about the technology that s on