baggage handlers, maintenance personnel, all sorts of folks that have legitimate access and if you look statistically, working on those folks, somebody will be a bad actor. may not have a terrorist intent but can be exploited. reporter: officials say chatter coming from isis in the sinai peninsula suggests the terrorist group could be behind the plot. russian officials say that intelligence has been shared with them but egypt says they know nothing about it. we would have like the uk not to make a decision until the full reports concerning the crash has been published. reporter: today after u.s. and british officials share their intelligence, russian president vladimir putin made the bold announcement that russia is suspending all flights to egypt. officials in egypt continue to push back saying it is still too early to know what caused the crash. pamela brown joins us.
boxes? reporter: apparently everything was normal for 24 minutes on the flight. suddenly a loud sound was followed by a blakeout, according to a french broadcaster who says european investigators who have listened to the black boxes are convinced there was an explosion caused by a bomb. today new clues are emerging from the moment the russian airliner broke apart in the sky. investigators have been analyzing the plane s black boxes. the noise of an explosion can be heard on the flight cockpit recorder. that did not stem from technical failure. as russian drones scour the debris, focus remains on egypt s sharm el sheikh airport where the aircraft departed. british intelligence officials believe an insider at the airport may have planted a bomb in the plane s cargo hold, right next to the aircraft s fuel line, according to the bbc. we have food service workers, baggage handlers, maintenance personnel, all sorts of folks
as russian drones scouring the debris field, focus remains on egyptian s sham el sheikh airport where the aircraft departed. british intelligence believe an insider at the airport may have planted a bomb in the plane s cargo hold right next to the aircraft s fuel line. you have food service workers, baggage handlers, maintenance personnel, all sorts of folks that have legitimate access and if you look statistically, working on those folks, somebody will be bad someplace. somehow perhaps they can be exploit the. reporter: satellites captured a midair flash over the peninsula indicating a potential explosion in the sky. u.s. and british intelligence officials say chatter coming from isis in the sinai peninsula suggest the terrorist group could be behind the plot. that intelligence has been shared with them but egypt says it knows nothing about it.
very rough. very rough. i ve been flying for 25 years. it s never been that rough. first time i ve ever felt that way. it was bumpy and there are a few people who got ill. happy to be on ground after a long day, yeah. a boston ems spokeswoman says two people were taken to the hospital with what are believed to be minor injuries. a different scare for passengers on a united express flight operated by sky west. the plane was headed from chicago to connecticut when it made an emergency landing in buffalo, new york, yesterday after three passengers passed out. the faa says the crew reported a possible pressurization problem but the airline released this statement. after examination by maintenance personnel and local authorities, there have been no indications of a pressurization problem or any other issues with the aircraft. our investigation is ongoing. the airline says passengers were evaluated by medical responders on the ground in buffalo and were released. now to an odd an
from the people who want to kill us in this world using passenger planes that we would let this happen? how does this happen? well, this happens as a result of a security gap being exposed, and the people that are at fault are the airlines, the airports and tsa. they need to work together to close this gap. it s been a known gap for many years, in fact. the reality is that we have 450 commercial airports in this country. we have tens of thousands of people that go to work at those airports every single day. they are fuelers, caterers, baggage handlers, maintenance personnel and ticket checkers, and they do not get screened when they go to work every day. that means backpacks, toolboxes and lunch boxes are finding their way through employee entrances and aren t being inspected by any kind of a third party. it was only a matter of time until an incident like this