doubt as investigators are looking into a fuel explosion or an overheeded lithium battery. earlier in the week pentagon officials say they detected a sudden and unexpected heat flash, seconds before the plane crashed. russia announcing friday it was suspending flights to egypt, today saying they had flown some 11,000 tourist out from sharm el sheikh and back to russia. while this is a joint russian and egyptian investigation, new york times is reporting the fbi is also helps with forensic analysis. given the increase in tenses between the kremlin and washington in recent months, this is a rare moment of cooperation between the two. harry? rare indeed. thank you very much. secretary of defense is it ash carter is accusing russia of endangering the world order with incursions, and actions in syria. garrett continuie has more from
could have been an explosion that was triggered by several things. a metal break-up of the plane, a fuel explosion, even suggesting that it may have been batteries that were stored inside the cargo of that plane. another important development that has happened in terms of that investigation, the closed-circuit television footage of the airport has been analyzed by egyptian security officials. they say there was no suspicious behavior while the plane was on the tarmac, there was no suspicion behavior of any personnel approaching the plane while was in sharm el sheikh airport. so as far as the investigation goes, no clear answers yet from egyptian officials here who say that they will make those results public once they have some answers to those questions. ayman mohyeldin in cairo, thank you. let me bring in msnbc terrorism analyst, also the director of middle east and north africa research for analyst flash point. what do you make of one egyptian investigator telling reuters they r
doubt as investigators are looking into a fuel explosion or an overheeded lithium battery. earlier in the week pentagon officials say they detected a sudden and unexpected heat flash, seconds before the plane crashed. russia announcing friday it was suspending flights to egypt, today saying they had flown some 11,000 tourist out from sharm el sheikh and back to russia. while this is a joint russian and egyptian investigation, new york times is reporting the fbi is also helps with forensic analysis. given the increase in tenses between the kremlin and washington in recent months, this is a rare moment of cooperation between the two. harry? rare indeed. thank you very much. secretary of defense is it ash carter is accusing russia of endangering the world order with incursions, and actions in syria. garrett continuie has more from
cooperating. the fbi agreed to help the russian government with forensic analysis to help tedetermine wh brought down the plane in the sinai peninsula in egypt. they are 90 percent certain the loud bang you can hear on the voice recorder was indeed a bomb. russia said it could be a fuel explosion or over heated battery. the chairman says all signs point to isis being responsible. the fact that isis has declared war on russia, it was a russian plane headed to russia in addition to the u.s. and u.k. intelligence i think all indicator the are pointing to the thafact this is isis puttin bomb on an airplane. isis may have concluded the best way to defeat airport defenses is not to go through them but to go around them with help on the inside. if that s the case there s