the pilots bring in with a nose high at theitude. and they strike it before the wheels take the weight of the plane. this plane had a tail strike in the past. it was said to repair by air bus up to industry standards. and there was a bomb in the cargo hold. i suppose there might have been weak spots and might have made the tail snap off. techally you wanted to disable an airplane. you don t need an incendiary equipment. and it is a small one in the place of the tail cone near the tail. and once it took out the controls, the airplane was just going to be junked. there was no way to control what was going on. would you expect that the
from that analysis. it could be very soon, sharm el sheikh, thanks so much. the 224 victims of the crash. officials in st. petersburg say 33 bodies have been identified so far. today, nationalists mourn the victims of the country s annual day of national let s turn to nic robertson. reporter: well, another tough day for the families of victims, the process of identifying the bodies continues. what they are hearing in russian media at the moment, two different versions of potentially what killed their loved ones, did the plane break apart in the air because the tail section fell off because of a faulty repair after a tail strike? an sudden to the the air frame a few years ago, or was it because of a bomb on poord? a st. petersburg newspaper the oldest here if st. petersburg,
underneath the bottom of the fuse lodge. so, once you disrupt that flow of primary structure moving the stresses into an area want it to go into, those will go into an area of the fuselage and it will actually self-destruct. the same plane back in 2001 suffered daniel on the tail after it struck the runway and it was repaired. is it possible that could have contributed to that crash or is it so long ago that that wouldn t play a role? no, actually, the length of time can actually add to it if the repair was made improperly, then the stress fractures that could result in that pressure bulkhead and cause it to fail. but, you know, based upon the pictures i have seen and admittedly that is not the best pictures and the best way to look at it. it doesn t appear that that pressure bulk head failed. but, you know what, if they have had enough of a tail strike, we
standard flight just before the plane disappeared from radar. russian media report no signs of explosive trauma on the bodies of the victims. was there a bomb on board or did a catastrophic mechanical failure occur in mid flight? if you have a pressurized environment such as an aircraft cabin obviously a fracture is serious and could bring the aircraft down. reporter: did a repair job after the tail truck the ground 14 years ago play a role? former ntsb investigator. there is the tail section is that separated from the airplane in flight. this would have been the area of the tail strike and this entire area would have been where the major repairs were performed. the plane was registered in ireland but operated and maintained by metro jet with russian oversight. irish authorities told nbc news as of last may the plane s certifications were all in order. security teams are reviewing the procedures at the airports in cairo and shar mel shake.
intelligence, a cell phone conversation saying, the deed is done, we don t know what the intelligence is other than they have some piece of evidence. i gather it s not the latter, not someone saying the deed is done, but we don t know what the difference is. but it itself, neither of these two streams, neither the forensics, nor the intelligence are conclusive. but when you put them together, they believe that there s growing indications that it was a bomb. but they can t conclude what brought the plane down one way or another yet. tom, you ve been looking at this as if it were a crash. potentially. and you ve talked about how this airliner has a questionable track record on maintenance, things like this. what do you know? so if you look at the pictures of the plane sitting on the floor of the desert in the sinai. you ll see that the tail section about three miles removed from the rest of the plane. that s relevant because there was a tail strike involving that