show us around. they took us on a tour to see the airport s inner workings. they showed us the luggage screening process, a process the british government says may bb manipulated leading to the upon bombing of metrojet 9268. bbc reports british intelligence believes a bomb was placed in the lower half of the plane s fuselage, a place where luggage is stored during the flight. all bags are first xaed. if they see something they think is suspicious they send us to this machine for more tests. it s used to test for ine and - explosives. when we were there everyone seemed to run smoothly. but the associated press reports that s not always the case. an unnamed airport official says the machine often breaks down and the breakdowns have more to do with, quote, human stupidity rather than technical faults. another official told a.p. the policeman at the scanning. s are poorly paid and sometimes take bribes to allow drugs and
generalizations. they are baseless and false. they insist the airport is safe. international siv aviation authority, and we are complying with all this thunder and regulation of this authority. which means it s completely safe to fly and fly from and to sharm el sheikh airport. reporter: the british and russian always shuls are skeptical. they ve sent their own teams to evaluate the airport and shepherd their is it shens home. whether or not isis brought down metrojet 9268 security at this and other airports in the region will remain under scrutiny. the results are far from final but there are enough for these voters to celebrate in myanmar. coming up, the election that could significantly change the country. also ahead, the latest on record levels of smog gagging parts of china and the dangers it might pose for others. stay with us.
purely circumstantial. u.s. officials don t have the hard evidence they normally would at this stage, explosive residue on the debris or bodies with shrapnel, possibly indicating an explosion, until they do so u.s. officials will also refuse a definitive conclusion, jake. but as you have heard so many officials here in the u.s. and israeli and in the uk they re at least willing to go so far as that is most likely conclusion. 99% is pretty close to 100. jim sciutto, thanks. the british government says the luggage screening process at sharm el sheikh failed and that could be how isis or its affiliate in sinai potentially delivered a bomb to this plane. cnn international correspondent erin mclaughlin is in sharm el sheikh where this ill-fated flight took off. erin, you got a close look at what goes on behind the ticketing counter at the airport. tell us about it. reporter: hi, jake. that s right. we were given a tour of the security points throughout the airport including the luggage
employees at airport is in many cases questionable. u.s. officials are so concerned about that that they re enhancing screening for items on planes coming into the united states from a number of different airports worldwide. a source with knowledge of that tells cnn that three of those airports are the ones in ahman, jordan, kuwait city and in cairo, wolf. speaking of cairo, are egyptian officials basically in denial about the likelihood that this was a bomb? many experts we talk to, wolf, believe that the egyptians are in denial at this point. that they don t want to acknowledge at the moment that it s a bomb because of the hit it will take on their tourism industry. now, for their part the egyptians say that all scenarios right now are on the table. they also deny that security is lax at sharm el sheikh airport. but experts are telling us that they point out this one thing that you have to remember, 16 years after the fact egyptian officials are still saying about that egypt ai
throughout the airport. we didn t see anything out of the ordinary, but the associated press reports that when the airport is out of the spotlight there are a number of alarming allegations made by seven unidentified airport officials. allegations including that a machine, a key machine used to monitor luggage for explosives often doesn t work due to human error. it also reports that there s lack security at one of the entrances to the airport for fuel for the airplane, food and fuel for the airplanes. they also report some of the poorly paid policemen inside the airport monitoring the x-ray machines are prone to bribes. so all of this egyptian officials really hitting back at the a.p. report spokesperson for egypt s aviation authority releasing the statement saying, quote, i am not saying we are 100% mistake free.