And im victor blackwell. One of the key points well be looking for, it was a bomb that took down that Russian Airliner with 224 people on board . French media reports that european analysis of the planes data recorders uphold the theory that an explosive device inside that plane, yes, brought it down. We want to go to mary, she is waiting with us to listen to what they have to say and michaelwise is with us as well. Mary, there has been some criticism weve heard from analysts who say listen, a bomb is why this plane went down, but we have yet to hear that from egyptian officials. When you see the evidence that has been presented thus far, do you believe that it was a bomb inside that plane . Well, certainly points to a bomb, but as an investigator, you know, and an air crash investigator and an aviation lawyer, i need more evidence and proof than that. Its very, very important that we keep pressing on for those answers because there are several crashes in the past when they were convinced one way or the other, like twa 100, people thought it was a bomb, it was mechanical. And panam 3, there are signatures on those bomb, on those blast devices and on the scatter patterns of the explosions, which they must verify. Now the sounds of the cbr are important, but there are steps to take in addition to that. It does look like a bomb, but they need to take the additional investigative to confirm. The evidence is there, they just have to find it. Hold on, we want to the go to cairo now. Wroo where we have a Senior International correspondent ben weedman. Ben, are we expecting details . I mean, id imagine there wouldnt be too many details they would give so early this in investigation, but its just kind of give us a framework of what to expect from this News Conference. Reporter were expecting, im with the head of this investigation to be the sole speaker at this press conference. Specifically what hes going to be talking about. We simply dont know. This crash took place last saturday thats just eight days ago. Now theres been a lot of speculation, theres been a lot of suggestions from british and american officials that perhaps could have been a bomb on that plane, but in terms of solid information and evidence thats available and physical, we havent seen anything yet. Egyptian officials have not ruled out the possibility that there could have been a bomb onboard, but theyve been very, theyve been very keen to stress that thats just one possibility among many and just simply in terms of the investigation, its way too early to draw any conclusions. Clearly they are hesitant to jump to any conclusions to make any claims that there have been a bomb onboard that plane. I think we shouldnt have too High Expectations as far as solid information coming out of this press. We understand they have begun looking through the cockpit voice recorder as well as the data recorder for the flight. The voice recorder was somewhat damaged in the crash, so its not clear how much information is there. Now we did hear via european investigators who are part of the egyptian investigation telling an affiliate of ours in france that in fact after 24 minutes, suddenly the cockpit voice recorder goes blank which sort of aviation experts indicate or suggest that that could have been a bomb, but as i said, until now, nothing official. Nothing solid coming out of this egyptianled investigation. All right. Lets go back now to michaelwise. Michael, author of inside the army of terror, isis, i want to ask you about the british are taking this, this suggestion and the information that this is possibly a bomb seriously. The americans obviously we heard from president obama. What we heard from isis several months ago was the call to attack where you are. And they were moving away, what appeared to be from the large exclamation point style attacks. How, if this is indeed a bomb placed by isis, does this change that narrative . How does this fit into the chronology of what weve seen . Its not all that remarkable. In july of 2014, during ramadan sermon,b baghdadi said were at war with this conspiracy led by the americans, russians, backed by the jews. And both he and his spokesman have essentially called for any and all styles of terrorist attacks against targets in the west and in the region. Since isis broke away from al qaeda, and now is competing with others in syria and with this global al qaeda brand for essentially dominance as the Jihadist Force on the planet. The way that theyre trying to one up each other, the way theyre trying to get the better of the other franchise is by doing exactly this. Carrying out spectacular attacks. We saw it in france. You know, the Charlie Hebdo massac massacre, perpetrated and the marketplace massacre by a lone wolf. In this particular instance though, it speaks a level of Operational Capability that should put the Egyptian Government very much on guard, if this was a bomb and smuggled aboard a commercial airliner in the luggage compartment or the cargo hold. That indicates that there was somebody on the inside that isis had either recruited or briebd or who had been a fellow traveler or a sympathizer. Somebody in the Security Services or perhaps even in the Egyptian Government. I mean, its not all that uncommon especially in the mooeld. Officials from the regimes essentially flip. They play both sides. Theyre double agents. Member of the Egyptian Military have run off to join other groups. So this is a very, very dire turn of events because it shows that now isis can do two things. It can sort of conduct these conventional style military operations, take and maintain territory, establish a form of governess under so thecalled banner. And also revert to classic terrorism operations. Bombs aboard planes. Blowing up civilians. If they had their druthers, they would with doing this everywhere, every day. And yes, to us in the united states. And i want to bring in david suze and former faa safety inspector. Officials did not investigate this from the getgo as a terrorist incident. With that in mind, what may have been lost in the last week in terms of the the time and the resources and how damaging might that have been to the investigation . What the biggest problem is not what the immediate results will be from this, but the fact that down the road, when a criminal investigation happens, when they start to try to prosecute someone for this, the criminal trail or the documentation of the evidence could have been damaged. And then there its very difficult to continue a case and to prosecute and conclude a case because you may not have had that forensic evidence trail. Because they werent thinking along those lines, but i would hope that they did this, at least in a professional way. They are experienced investigators, so the immediate determination of what happened may not have been damaged. But the ability to prosecute is what may have been damaged. Were awaiting this News Conference from cairo, an update on the investigation into the crash of a metrojet flight 9268, we have our reporters there in cairo, also in the airport. We have our aviation analyst, terror analyst here covering this from all angles. Stay with us, well be back in just a moment. When it comes to helping you reach your financial goals,t taking small, manageable steps can be an effective. And enjoyable approach. Compared to the alternatives. Push i am pushing sfx pants ripping how you doing eddie . Almost there. Small steps. 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This press conference hopefully to hear more about the investigation into what downed metrojet 9268, that russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula last week, but again, these are live pictures. They look like theyre checking the microphones, were getting ready to listen to them. Do we to want go to Erin Mcglothlin right now . I know that erin is in Sharm El Sheikh. We see somebody sitting down here. So i dont want to interrupt if they do start talking, but, erin, i want to go to you to get the latest, you are in Sharm El Sheikh, so viewers know, i want to apologize in advance. We dont mean to, if they start speaking, we need to get to them, but please, go ahead. Reporter its unclear what conference that is just now about to begin. Earlier today, we heard from the cairo Prime Minister he expressed frustrations about the media reports that would indicate that investigators, that have analyzed the black boxes are looking like they they could conclude that a bomb was indeed put on the plane. Saying that that information was leaked to the media, instead of being shared with egyptian authorities. So he sounded angry when he was talking, he also said that the International Partners that are now pulling their citizens out of egypt did not heed egypts warnings to deal with terrorism. Take a listen to what he had to say. Translator they did not show a level of cooperation and direct targeting of these organizations that we hoped for. I can say these calls were not heeded by many of the parties who are now working to protect the interest of their citizens. Reporter now in terms of that evacuation operation, still ongoing. You can see just in the distance there, Sharm El Sheikh international airport. All day weve been seeing planes arriving from russia from the United Kingdom to evacuate their citizens back home. Those sltss will be getting on board those planes without their luggage. Because of concerns about security surrounding the luggage area. Of the planes. That luggage has, or will rather be loaded on separate cargo planes and returned to the passengers at a later date. And its this kind of process thats really concerning to egyptian authorities. They had expressed concern about all of the speculation surrounding this. The intelligence reports coming from britain, coming from the united states, intelligence reports that have not been shared with egypt. Theyre concerned about the potential impact that could have on egypts Tourism Industry which is seen as important to this country. Egyptian Authorities Saying that the facts need to be established first before jumping to any sort of conclusions. Okay, erin, we appreciate it. We want to get you there to cairo as the gentleman there is starting to speak. Translator as chair of the Investigation Team to have to acquaint you with the latest developments related to the work of the investigation committee. Within the work of transparency and our keenness to give the Public Opinion locally and globally of every variables in the investigation. The committee has met and has issued a statement i believe out to you, the statement of the investigation commits you with the participation of its members and representatives of the foreign countries. But before i start we as Investigation Team of the accident of metrojet flight number kgl 9268, extend our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the russian aircraft that crashed in the middle last saturday, 31st of october 16th. After the accident occurred, the government of egypt, emergency personnel, and accident investigators to the crash site. After the accident. The armed forces guarded the site of the wreckage. The flight recorders, black boxes were recovered on the same day and the bodies of the victims were recovered and taken to hospitals in cairo. On the same day of the accident, the minister of civil of egypt formed an investigation committee. In compliance with the egyptian low number 28 and nx 13. To take the charge of the investigation of the accident. The government of egypt extended invitations to representatives from russia as state of operator, ireland, state of history, france, a state of design, and germany, state of manufacturing. And advisors from Engine Manufacturers and from airbus. Me, myself, i represent egypt in leading the technical investigation committee. Egyptian air force operated five flights to the crash site, carrying various members of the Investigation Team, including egyptian investigators and all other state investigators involved. The investigators examined and photographed what was found, including recording underneath of each measured piece. It is planned that the committee would conduct further visits to the accident site in the incoming days. The Investigation Team composed of 47 investigators as follows. From egypt, we have 29. From russia, seven. From france, six, from germany, two. And from ireland, three. The accident advisors from airbus, are ten. From the other, one advisor. This comes to a total of 58 participants in this investigation. To meet all technical needs, and requirements, five subgroups were created as follows. One, recorders group. Two, accident site group. Three, operations. Spobl for air Traffic Control for airline information. Four, aircraft and systems. Five, medical and for forensic this is the fifth one. The committee is undertaking its work in accordance with nx 13 to Chicago Convention which is consistent with egyptian law number 28. All groups are working in parliament are currently in the informationgathering phase. We are still in the informationgathering phase. Visits to the accident site were handled by workers. As soon as the weather improves, future visits will be arranged. The wreckage will be recovered to a safe and secure place in cairo. For further examination for each part, during which specialists will be involved. The committee will recover the aircraft system computers, which have a special nonvolatile memory. Observations of the committee until today. One, debris is scattered over a wide area. More than 13 kilometers in length. Which is consistent with and inflight breakup. Some parts of the wreckage are missing. And it is hoped to locate them in the incoming days. Two, the initial observation of the aircraft records does not yet allow to either to find the origin of the inflight breakup. Three, the flight recorders were recovered on the first day of the first day of the accident and they were successfully downloaded. The preliminary review of the fdr flight data recorder indicates the following time is three hours, 50 minutes, and six second. With recording stopped at four hours, 13 minutes, and 20 seconds. So duration from takeoff to the end of recordings is 23 minutes and 14 seconds. Last recorded altitude is 30,888 feet. While the aircraft is still in climbing mode. Last recorded air speed is 281 one knots. With autopilot one was engaged until the end of recordings. Four, the cvr was successfully downloaded. And the first listening was done. Although the cvr team is still in the phase of writing, the transcript which takes time finalize, a noise was heard in the last seconds of the cvr recording. An analysis will be carried out by specialized labs in order to identify the nature of this noise. The committee, media reports and analysis, some of which claim to be based on official intelligence, which favors a certain scenario for the cause of the accident. The committee was not provided with any information or evidence in this regard. The committee usuals the such reports to provide it with all information that could help us to undertake our mission. Six, the committee is considered, considering with a great attention all possible scenarios for the cause of the accident and did not reach until the moment any conclusion in this regards. Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, we have time for very few questions. Because my people are waiting. Im afraid i have very limited time. They are waiting for me. [ speaking Foreign Language ] translator you are present without [ inaudible ] translator why no one assisted this conference, theres no planning. Theres no planning. Its going to be translated in arabic. We want to talk in arabic. Yes. Yeah, i can take in arabic if you would like to. I can talk in arabic if you would like to. Okay. Thats fine. I can read in arabic if you would like to. I dont know of any planning. I am inviting you. I was assisted for them to be present, but they decided not to come over. They decided not to participate. Maybe they have issues and i dont know of, but i dont know of. I want to make clear please sir, please sir. I would like to let you know they are aware of this situation and this Conference Ladies and gentlemen, first, i would like to present investigation results in regards to the flight of two of my condolences that crashed last saturday, october 31st, 2015. You guys are please be quiet. Please, everybody, to be quiet. Please, calm down. I understand you, okay. Translator i will wait. I will be patient. All right. This is really interesting here. Because you could hear the anger. We dont know what that first question was, necessarily. But you could certainly hear the anger in the mans voice. It then finally became transparent or evident to us that they were, there were some anger about the fact that he was not speaking arabic. They asked him to speak in arabic which he now has said that he will do, but there is still a lot of animosity, and you hear anger in the voices of the people that are there. As this head of the commission of inquiry is trying to address everybody about their latest findings in th