photographed by their mom ready to bod. human error wasn t to blame. investigators will look the everything. the weather, the way the airplane was fueled, the cargo, everything about it. reporter: the plane crashed in an area where militants are fighting egypt s army. allies of isis claim they shot down the plane. officials dismissed that, saying the militants don t have the missiles to do it. the airline metrojet has been grounded by russian authorities who have had serious concerns about its maintenance record. the crew reporting engine trouble several times recently. the wife of the co-pilot revealing her husband had complained about the plane s condition. russia today is in shock. it s a day of national mourning, after a tragedy they will not forget. so investigators now working on those black boxes, listening to the last words and sounds from the cockpit. some airlines now have security worries. remember, there is no evidence
i m getting experts ringing me up with possible suggestion. they ve also got other contacts within the aviation industry. they ve all given them a thumbs up to this particular aircraft and its maintenance record. it s actually sort of going to need its surface schedules. i hear your phone ringing him we will come back to you later in the show him we will continue throughout the morning. we will be right back. in
david, how soon could we see that preliminary report come out on whether this could be part of mh-370? george they re going to be doing this by the book, methodically with all of these international partners involved. down that list. french americans, chinese, malaysians as well. all working together. they do not want to make a mistake. remember this is the only thing they have. the only piece of physical evidence in more than 500 days. so the next couple of days are about getting together figuring out how they re going to proceed, and then on wednesday, that examination we expect to start. now, that is looking at the numbers, is this something that can tie this directly to mh-370 is there something potentially, a marking on it or something that corresponds to a maintenance record. they may even have to go so far as to take it apart and look inside and begin to try to get a closer understanding. it all just depends, george. the important thing here is
french alps along with some remains of 150 people on board. at least one of the airbus a320 black boxes have been found. why did the plane have a rapid descent after at a cruising altitude which is one of the safest points in a flight. we are going to cover all of the breaking news. let s again with our aviation correspondent rene marsh. she has the very latest. rene? the airliner is in pieces. nothing bigger than a small car. the mystery tonight is what went so terribly wrong on board an aircraft with an impeccable safety record it just passed a maintenance record the day before and had experienced pilots in the cockpit. tonight, this is the challenging rocky terrain first responders and investigators are
aif french official tells cnn the airbus a-320 slammed into a cliff side and was in his words completely obliterated. video captured from helicopters hints at just how big the debris field is bodies remain and littered the mountain terrain. french authorities say it s unlikely crews will retrieve any of the victims tonight. cnn is working the story all over the globe. we ll start with cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. rene, such a mystery about what happened to the u.s. planeplane. the u.s. says it s likely not terrorism, but what do we know? what we know actually makes the crash even more perplexing. this airbus a-320 has an impeccable maintenance record. it received a maintenance check yesterday and the pilot had been