given that nobody really knows what s going on here. nema, thank you very much. live at sharm el sheikh airport, tens of thousands of people stranded there. joining me now, former cia counterterrorism official phil mud and our aviation lead correspondent richard quest. thanks to both of you. richard, what did investigators hear that has them in their wores categorically convinced that a bomb brought the plane down? i blif what they heard is an explosion, a noise, a scintilla, the very smallest amount of noise, but they were able to identify it as being that of an explosion. now, whether from a bomb or otherwise, they say they believe it s a bomb. they tha s the bit that s not, if you like the final part. but we ve seen this before. mh-17 there was just the smallest amount of audio before the power was cut to the voice recorder, and they were able to identify it. we heard it again on twa-800. the idea is not new, but the fact that they have been able to isolate it this quickly would
yesterday when the russian authorities declared that they would suspend all flights to egypt, not just sharm el sheikh, after they saw intelligence provided by the united states about whatever the americans happened to have. what s interesting is this is the front page of a cairo daily. it says [ speaking foreign language ] by shakespeare. it reveals how the egyptians are alone in thinking perhaps this was merely a mechanical malfunction. george? egypt concerned obviously as russia suspending flights into egypt which relies heavily on tourism. tell us more about a close call with another plane traveling to
two louisiana police officers now charged with murder in that young boy s killing. european authorities now believe that, yes, a bomb most likely caused that deadly jet crash in egyptian. new information about a u.k. flight close call with a missile on its way to sharm el-sheikh airport. there s got to be a scandal, some nurse he s having an affair with. there s got to be something. they are getting desperate. i go to these book signing, they say, don t let the media get you down. they understand that this is a witchhunt. ben carson like we have never seen him before on the campaign trail, agitated, animated, abutting media reports questioning his past. i always appreciate our weekends with you.
the last week, you would feel comfortable with a commercial flight taking off from sharm el sheikh airport and landing here at jfk. that flight does not exist now, but would you feel comfortable if it did? well, i would feel comfortable if our homeland security folks were there where the flight originated and made sure that the procedures were as careful as they need to be. and, you know, that s what has to happen all over the world. we re focused on this particular point of origin in egypt because egypt has been the subject of a number of terrorist groups, but the rest of the story is, we know since 9/11 terrorist groups, not just isis, but various branches of al qaeda, are focused on aviation. and they keep adapting and changing their methods to get around our security methods. and they ll keep doing that, but we can t, you know, cower in our homes and refuse to fly because
that we ve learned today that on the 23rd of august, a british airliner was headed to sharm el sheikh when the co-pilot apparently was when they were approaching the airport saw some projectile heading toward the plane. according to the british ministry of transport, the projectile came within 1,000 feet or around 300 meters of that plane before the pilot took evative action. and the ministry of transport put out a statement early this morning saying that their investigation indicated that it was not a targeted attack likely, but rather was likely connected to routine exercises by the egyptian military in the area of sharm el sheikh airport. so this incident rather puzzling, where a surface-to-air missile perhaps is being fired into the vicinity of the civilian airport will probably also come up at that press conference in cairo this