sheikh bound for st. petersburg, russia. russian media reporting that the pilot radioed to report technical problems and requested a landing. cnn cannot corroborate some of the details. a metro jet. the airline plans to fly relatives to egypt. russian president, vladimir putin, has declared a day of warning for sunday. let s bring in cnn aviation analyst, peter goals. he is the former managing director for the ntsb. peter, good to see you. it is difficult to discern what s a verifiable information. this took place in a difficult part of egypt. egyptian military may have gotten to the crash location to retrieve some of the bodies, something like 15 or 16 bodies
doors in general you won t open a door into the fire or into that fuel, but i will say that some of the challenges for folks that can t see things and if this fire developed and smoke developed, circumstances may have changed. you want to get the passengers off on the side that s the safest but perhaps they couldn t see what they couldn t see at the time before it developed, but the good news is, the evacuation worked. you had good crew resource management with other pilots conveying information about the leaking fluids coming out of the engine and so all of this is really important. this is a success. no one was killed. you re absolutely right. it could have been a lot worse. debra hersman, former ntsb chair. thanks very much. let s bring in our aviation analyst miles o bryan and the former ntsb managing director peter goals. do 767s have a good safety record, aad safety record?
mcloughlin is now. i want to talk about that debris for the moment. with me now cnn aviation analyst peter goals. welcome, peter. good morning, carol. good morning. are you surprised more debris was found? i am a little bit. but it has not been confirm that this debris is from flight 370. the malaysians are anxious to put a wrap on this portion of the identification. they moved quickly to identify the wing piece prior to anyone else was willing to do that. i think we ought to treat these latest discoveries with a little degree of skepticism. let s see if they re confirmed. yeah. because an airplane s windshield is a little more tricky to identify where that came from right? there should be serial
chaotic falling may do damage to it. the main part to bear in mind in all of this is is that this is one part about seven feet long, the entire wing of this plane from one side to the other is almost 200 feed. that s a huge difference. and when you think back to what happened when the twa plan went down off the coast of long island, look at the thousands of pieces they were able to collect from that plane and analyze to figure out what happened there. even now people dispute whether or not they got it right. so this is a very, very important clue they have right now but it is one very small one and just the start. tom foreman, thank you. let s bring in our cnn aviation analyst miles o brien joining us, along with peter goals joining us, richard quest, and our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. richard quest, we heard tom s report. what evidence on this flaperon, this piece of this wing, will investigators use to learn more about the plane s disappearance? i think there s going to
whatever happens, we will not give up. we have had many false alarms before but for the sake of the families who have lost loved ones and suffered such heartbreaking uncertainty, i pray that we will find out the truth so that they may have closure and peace. i promise the families of those lost that whatever happens we will not give up. that should be very welcome news to the families of the chinese passengers who were on board this plane. most of the passengers were from mainland china, in fact 152 passengers were from the prc. the families of the chinese passengers issued a statement today saying that they don t want 99% verification of this piece of debris. they want 100% verification. they also want to know about the whereabouts of their loved ones and they want that search effort to go on no matter what. back to you, carol. all right. . i want to focus on the investigation. i want to bring in managing director and cnn aviation analyst peter goals. peter, welcome. good mornin