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00:00Do you read me, Metrojet 9268?
00:03Panic grips an Egyptian air traffic controller.
00:06The altitude just dropped and disappeared.
00:12Do you read me, Metrojet 9268?
00:15There's no way to survive.
00:21Charred wreckage in the Sinai Desert is all that's left of Metrojet Flight 9268.
00:27Investigators must contend with political tensions and wild rumours.
00:34There was good reason for people to speculate this could have been a surface tear myself.
00:41What's that sound?
00:43An unusual clue points to a chilling possibility.
00:47Modern aircraft just don't fall out of the sky.
00:51They just don't.
00:57It's just before 6 a.m. at Sharm el-Sheikh airport in Egypt.
01:22217 passengers are headed to St. Petersburg, Russia, some four hours away.
01:31They're flying on Metrojet Flight 9268.
01:34The kinds of airlines that you have flying into Sharm el-Sheikh is budget airlines, low-cost carriers.
01:44Very competitively priced specifically for Russian, Ukrainian, other East European tourists and also people from the UK.
01:51The Lure for tourists is a budget beach holiday on the Red Sea, a small oasis at the edge of Egypt's Sinai Desert.
02:03Sharm el-Sheikh is right at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
02:07Mostly it's actually good for people who like to scuba dive.
02:11The weather is fairly nice throughout the year and all of that put together makes it a very popular destination spot for people.
02:21The Metrojet captain is Valery Niemov, an experienced aviator with 12,000 hours of flight time.
02:30Mysterio check complete.
02:32Everything in order out there?
02:34All good, captain.
02:35Standard procedure for pilots everywhere.
02:39One of the two of them gets into the cockpit and the other does what they call the walk-around check.
02:45It's my daughter. I gotta take this. I'll make it fast.
02:54First officer Sergei Truchachev is a former military pilot.
02:58Hi, honey.
03:00Huh, good question.
03:03The aircraft is an Airbus A321, a longer version of the Airbus A320.
03:11Down to your right.
03:12This morning's flight is almost full.
03:15Including the seven crew members, there are 224 people on board.
03:21That'll never fit. Let me store it at the back.
03:29Getting everyone's carry-on luggage safely stowed on a near-capacity flight is a challenge.
03:36You'll just need to put that under the seat for now.
03:45And I'll see you tonight.
03:51All done.
03:52Good.
03:53Let's get going.
03:55Let's do it.
03:56Metrojet 9268.
04:06Runway 04 right.
04:07Metrojet 9266.
04:2132 more were injured.
04:24Shortly after, the company changed its brand name.
04:29When Metrojet rebranded itself, Russia
04:34was emerging from the aviation doldrums
04:38that it hit with the demise of the Soviet Union.
04:43It's come back up again, and the Metrojet
04:46has been reborn into the new, much safer era now.
04:53Shama Shaikh, Metrojet 9268, request takeoff clearance.
04:58Runway 04 right.
05:04Metrojet 9268, cleared for takeoff.
05:07Runway 04 right.
05:1480 knots.
05:15Check.
05:18V1.
05:20V1.
05:22OK.
05:27At 5.51 AM, Metrojet flight 9268 lifts into the air.
05:33The aircraft took off in a standard way.
05:37No problems with the takeoff.
05:39No problems with the climb.
05:46The flight path is northeast from Shama el-Sheikh, along the Gulf of Aqaba.
05:51It then heads due north over Cyprus, Turkey, Ukraine, and finally into Russian airspace,
05:58ending in St. Petersburg.
06:01Total flight time is expected to be 4 hours and 40 minutes.
06:05Measures at 9268, prepare to contact Nicosia control.
06:11Local frequency.
06:11We'll let you know when we've left Egypt airspace.
06:1820 minutes after takeoff, Egyptian air traffic control is ready to hand the airbus over to
06:24controllers in Cyprus.
06:26Round about that time, it was still climbing.
06:28Look over my schedule for the next few days.
06:302 hours.
06:34With the seatbelt sign off, passengers are free to move around the cabin.
06:57Come in.
06:572 cups of tea for two flying gentlemen.
07:08Thank you very much.
07:09You go the best.
07:10Since you say so, no charge for the tea.
07:18Flight 9268 reaches cruising altitude, 31,000 feet above the Sinai Peninsula.
07:24The Sinai Desert is about a third of Egypt's size, and Egypt's about a million square kilometers.
07:32So it's a huge, vast expanse of desert.
07:35All is going smoothly at air traffic control, until at 6.13 a.m., when flight 9268 does something unexpected.
07:46It had gone through 30,000 feet, and then all of a sudden, the radar return changed.
07:53The airbus seems to be dropping.
08:03Metrojet 9268.
08:05Are you experiencing any difficulties?
08:12The initial reaction of the controller is, am I seeing something?
08:16Am I seeing things?
08:17Is this me?
08:26Then all of a sudden, everything just dropped off.
08:30At the altitude, just dropped and disappeared.
08:32That's when the adrenaline starts kicking in.
08:38Do you read me?
08:54NBC News has learned Russian air carrier Metrojet flight 9268 disappeared from radar this morning.
08:59Egyptian government officials confirmed to NBC News that the plane has crashed in the northern Sinai Peninsula,
09:04and that Egyptian air force jets have reportedly located the wreckage of this plane.
09:09As rescuers arrive on the scene, it soon becomes clear that there are no survivors.
09:14All 224 passengers and crew are dead.
09:26Almost all the victims were Russian citizens returning from holiday.
09:35In St. Petersburg, news of the shocking disaster spreads quickly.
09:39The metrojet crash is the deadliest air accident in the history of Russian aviation.
09:55A nation is demanding answers.
09:58How could it have happened?
10:00Airbus aircraft just simply do not fall out of the sky.
10:04So that gets everyone's ears perked up on what happened here.
10:10I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the Situation Room.
10:13Thousands of foreign tourists, they're stranded right now in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.
10:18Their flight's grounded. Russian and Egyptian officials are warning against jumping to conclusions.
10:24In Egypt's Sinai Desert, an international team of investigators gathers near the crash zone of metrojet flight 9268.
10:34Egyptian investigators will work alongside their Russian counterparts to try to find out what went wrong.
10:42For both nations, the stakes are high.
10:45The Russians, they lost a lot of people on board that aircraft.
10:50And they don't want the safety of Russian aviation to be impugned.
10:56Egypt, it was in Egyptian airspace that this happened.
11:00And they do not wish their professionalism as an aviating nation to be impugned as well.
11:06Good to see you again.
11:12Yeah, you too.
11:14So, what do we got?
11:16The team starts by mapping the wreckage.
11:19Something Stephen Moss has done many times as a senior member of Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
11:25A wreckage map or debris trail is part of the fundamental procedures of air crash investigation.
11:38This is what we're finding.
11:40Tail section is here.
11:42Wings and forward fuselage are here.
11:53Almost five kilometers apart.
11:54Good God.
11:59The wreckage of the aircraft spread out over a trail of about 13 kilometers long.
12:06The lengthy wreckage trail provides an important first clue.
12:12Made our breakup.
12:13Well over 20,000 feet, I'd say.
12:15The size of the debris field tells investigators that the plane broke apart high in the air.
12:21It's the only way wreckage could be spread over such a large area.
12:26If the plane had stayed intact until it hit the ground, the debris field would be much smaller.
12:32What caused Metrojet 9268 to break apart is investigators' first question.
12:40They can see that both of the plane's engines were charred by fire.
12:46The engines were also completely detached from the wings, which double as the aircraft's fuel tanks.
12:52Could have been a fuel tank explosion, like TW 800.
12:57In July 1996, a Boeing 747 blew apart and fell into the sea minutes after taking off from New York's JFK airport.
13:07One of the longest air crash investigations in history found that a short circuit sparked an explosion in the plane's center wing fuel tank.
13:18Could something similar have happened in Egypt?
13:29At the time, the Egyptian authorities floated the idea that it could have been a fuel tank explosion.
13:35They've got electrically driven fuel pumps, an electrical short circuit sets the fuel alight, wing blows off.
13:42Let's get the wreckage pieces to a hangar so we can take a closer look.
13:48We've already started on that.
13:49What about the black boxes?
13:51Black boxes are on the way for analysis.
13:54The aircraft's flight recorders could hold the evidence investigators need, but accessing and analyzing the data will take time.
14:06Hello?
14:07Before getting any further on the fuel tank explosion theory, investigators are confronted with news that could change everything.
14:14Really?
14:17There are rumors this was a terrorist attack.
14:22It's obviously much too early to pinpoint a cause of this crash, but the area where the plane went down has been the scene of terrorist clashes with the Egyptian military in recent years, including a big one over the summer.
14:32For the longest time, the Sinai Peninsula has been effectively outside of the government's control.
14:39So any group wishing to find a base of operation would easily be able to melt in its mountains, caves, or just a vast expanse of desert.
14:51Though global tensions cannot be ignored, what investigators need are hard facts.
14:57They don't draw conclusions based on speculation.
15:00That doesn't satisfy me as an investigator.
15:05And I don't think that would satisfy any country now.
15:11They would want to see photographs, prove it.
15:14You need to understand why did it happen.
15:23Take a look at this.
15:27What is it?
15:28This terrorist group is claiming responsibility for the attack.
15:32A terrorist group affiliated with Islamic State, fighting to seize territory across the Middle East, claims responsibility for bringing down Metrojet 9268.
15:44They say it was in retaliation for Russian military attacks in Syria.
15:49Though there is no proof to back up the claim, there's speculation that attackers used a surface-to-air missile.
16:04When I looked at the debris field, I kept thinking right again.
16:08Another catastrophic, shocking crash as a result of an ignition device hitting the aircraft.
16:16There was good reason for people to speculate initially that this could have been a surface-to-air missile.
16:23That group has used a surface-to-air missile before, specifically in early 2014, to shoot down successfully an Egyptian helicopter.
16:31They've also posted photographs of different surface-to-air missiles that they have in their arsenal.
16:41After the fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, militants raided his weapons depots, flooding the region with Russian-made shoulder-mounted missile launchers.
16:52Investigators need to know if those weapons are powerful enough to hit an airliner at cruising altitude.
16:59They study military documents and make some quick calculations.
17:17They soon have their answer.
17:22It's not possible.
17:25Not with the weapons they have.
17:26It was too high of an altitude to be a surface-to-air missile.
17:31And the initial talk of the possibility of the Islamic State being behind it was dismissed.
17:37Just when the missile theory is off the table, another public statement raises a new possibility.
17:57What's she saying?
18:08I can't understand a word.
18:10They spoke with the father just before he flew out of Shalmasek.
18:15And what did he say?
18:18He said there were mechanical issues with the plane.
18:23It's my daughter.
18:24I gotta take this.
18:25I'll make it fast.
18:27Hi, honey.
18:35Good question.
18:36Let's just say I've flown a better.
18:42I did see reports of family members quoting that safety was dubious on this aircraft.
18:52There's only one way to find out.
18:53The fact that the aircraft may have had a lot of problems, you'd have to firstly find out what those problems were, and secondly, are they relevant to what we know has happened?
19:07Excuse me.
19:12Investigators speak with the aircraft engineer who last serviced the airplane at Shalmasek Airport.
19:19What can you tell us about Metrojet 9268?
19:21What can you tell us about Metrojet 9268?
19:23We service it for 30 minutes before takeoff.
19:27Doesn't sound like a long time.
19:29It's all the time we had to turn it around.
19:35That is a quick turnaround, and low-cost carriers sometimes have to do that.
19:41They work their people hard to turn the aircraft around fast so that that aircraft is in the air as many hours of the day as it possibly can be earning money for them.
19:54How would you describe the plane's condition?
19:58No major issues.
19:59It checked out fine.
20:01The aircraft was 18 years old.
20:04It had been through several different owners.
20:07But maintenance engineers insist that the plane was mechanically sound.
20:11Significant incidents may be in the past.
20:20Something like that.
20:31It had a tail strike in 2001.
20:34A tail strike is when the rear fuselage of a plane hits the runway during takeoff or landing.
20:43Damage can be minor or severe, depending on the force of the impact.
20:48It happened during a landing in Cardo.
20:53Pretty major damage.
20:55Now, this would need to be repaired, and it would need to be repaired very carefully.
21:00And, of course, that would be an area that the investigators would look at very closely.
21:06Maintenance records show that the tail strike damage was repaired.
21:11But investigators have reason to be concerned.
21:14It's not the structural damage itself at the time, which is the danger.
21:20It is the repair afterwards.
21:21In 2002, 225 people died when a China Airlines jumbo jet came apart in mid-air.
21:31What happened was the rear pressure bulkhead failed.
21:34It actually blew the fin off.
21:36A repair of tail strike damage carried out 22 years earlier ultimately proved to be not strong enough.
21:44Modern airliners are designed to withstand huge changes in atmospheric pressure.
21:54As a plane climbs, air is pumped into the cabin so that passengers can survive the change in exterior air pressure.
22:02On descent, the flow is reversed.
22:06These pressure changes flex the fuselage.
22:08A poor repair, as in the case of China Airlines, could be an accident waiting to happen.
22:18All right, thank you for the information.
22:21Investigators now wonder if a tail strike repair from 14 years ago may have fatally weakened the Metrojet Airbus.
22:29If these are not checked on a regular basis, that can end up in the destruction of the aircraft.
22:38So the tail strike was something the investigators had to look at extremely closely as a possible cause of this accident.
22:49The shattered remains of Metrojet 9268 have been moved from the Sinai Desert to a massive warehouse in Cairo.
22:59Let me take a look at this.
23:06Investigators hope the collected debris can tell them if an improper tail strike repair from years ago doomed Metrojet Flight 9268.
23:18It's a daunting task, but they need to know.
23:22Is this China Airlines Flight 661 all over again?
23:25The tail strike could explain why the tail section was the first piece to break off.
23:31Agreed.
23:33Let's check all the tail pieces we can find.
23:39Good idea.
23:39Then you'd return to the actual wreckage itself and say, well, is there any indication that there has been, or the event itself, has initiated from the region of the rear pressure bulkhead?
23:54They sort through tail pieces from the Metrojet Airbus.
23:59They focus on the ones that were repaired because of the tail strike incident.
24:03If any mistakes or shortcuts are made during the repair, then that tends to put abnormal or uneven stresses on various parts of the metal structure, and that starts the process of metal fatigue and you get cracks.
24:22Fatigue has certainly, to the trained investigator, has quite distinctive characteristics.
24:31No signs of damage around the repair.
24:33After an exhaustive analysis, investigators agree that the structure of the Metrojet plane, including its repaired tail, was perfectly sound.
24:45Still searching for the cause of the mid-air breakup, they return to an earlier theory, fuel tank explosion.
25:02If there has been a fuel tank explosion, it should be discernible in the outer walls of the fuel tank of being bulged outward.
25:13But the evidence doesn't support a fuel tank failure.
25:17It's another dead end.
25:21Before long, they also rule out engine failure and all other mechanical failures.
25:27It seems there was nothing wrong with the aircraft.
25:32Which doesn't make sense.
25:35It's frustrating, but that's the way it sometimes goes.
25:38In Russia, families of the victims are still waiting for answers.
25:46The pressure mounts on both Russian and Egyptian authorities.
25:49There's a natural tension when an entire aircraft is lost, with everybody on board being from one state.
25:58The Russian government feels it has to explain to its people what has happened, because they're very shocked.
26:06Meanwhile, Egypt, on the other hand, is saying,
26:10Oh, God, this is going to damage our tourism industry.
26:17The committee is considering with great attention all possible scenarios for the cause of the accident,
26:26and did not reach till the moment any conclusion in this regards.
26:30Investigator's best hope of understanding why 224 people died now lies with the plane's cockpit voice recorder.
26:40They listen for anything out of the ordinary.
27:06A missed procedure by the crew, or any background sound that might hold a clue.
27:1380 knots.
27:15Check.
27:18D1.
27:20D1.
27:23Rotate.
27:24You can hear everything that the pilots can hear.
27:28The sound of the engines, the sound of the air rushing past.
27:31And you can hear what the pilots are saying to each other.
27:34And if anybody else comes into the cockpit and talks to them, you can hear that too.
27:39Come in.
27:42Two cups of tea for two fine gentlemen.
27:45Thank you very much.
27:47You are the best.
27:48Since you say so, no charge for the team.
27:55Metrojet 9268, prepare to contact Nicosia control.
27:59Local frequency.
28:01Okay.
28:01Might as well get comfortable.
28:04I have to look over my schedule for the next few days.
28:06That's it?
28:14Everything's going normally.
28:15The normal sounds in the cockpit.
28:16The normal conversation.
28:18And then suddenly, it stops.
28:21Play the very end again, but this time can we try to take out some background noise?
28:27Might as well get comfortable.
28:29I have to look over my schedule for the next few days.
28:31Thanks.
28:31Thanks.
28:36What's that sound?
28:40Can you isolate it anymore?
28:46I have to look over my schedule for the next few days.
28:51There's definitely sound there.
28:53It's like a...
28:54Like a bang.
28:56It sounds like the beginning of an explosion.
28:58It's a compelling clue, suggesting an onboard blast.
29:02The team now wants to learn all they can from the crucial recording.
29:07If we can find out where that sound came from, we might be able to figure out what caused the explosion.
29:12There is an event, and then it stops working.
29:15Well, that in its own, on itself, is telling you something.
29:19That is saying that there has been a very sudden and violent event.
29:22The cockpit voice recorder has captured what seems to be the sound of an explosion.
29:34To help figure out what could have caused an explosion, investigators first must determine where the sound came from.
29:41The cockpit voice recorders, they're leaving one signature piece of evidence so far.
29:48And that is some type of unknown noise that requires a frequency spectral analysis of the time domain of the noise.
30:00The CVR records sounds in the cockpit from three microphones.
30:06One on the captain's headset, one on the first officer's headset, and one main cockpit microphone between the two pilots.
30:14Hydraulic demand pumps.
30:16All out.
30:17Determining which microphone the blast sound hit first can reveal which side of the plane it came from.
30:23It hit the captain's microphone first, then the central microphone, then after the first officer's.
30:32So that means it came from the left side of the plane.
30:36The question is where?
30:42An explosion produces two different types of waves.
30:46A shockwave vibrates through the fuselage at speeds up to 16,000 feet per second.
30:53A much slower soundwave travels through the air at 1,100 feet per second.
30:59Both of these waves are captured by the sensitive cockpit microphones.
31:04Can we see the close-up of the captain's microphone, please?
31:12Comparing the timing of the two different waves could help investigators pinpoint the origin of the blast.
31:19That's the soundwave, and that's the shockwave.
31:21So the soundwave hit the microphone just over one hundredth of a second after the shockwave.
31:28Give me a second.
31:29The small gap in time between the two waves is a huge clue for investigators.
31:39They already know the speed of each wave.
31:43Now, with the time gap, they can calculate exactly how far they travelled.
31:47I think it started at the rear of the plane.
31:52Right here.
31:53At the very left.
31:56The rear of the plane.
32:00That makes sense.
32:01Clever detective work has revealed where the blast originated.
32:21Now they want to know what caused it.
32:23They hope wreckage from the rear of the plane can provide a clue.
32:32Look at this.
32:33As they re-examine the wreckage, they discover some telltale debris.
32:38What is it?
32:39Take a look.
32:41Several pieces of fuselage peppered with suspicious-looking holes.
32:45I think I saw another one just like that.
32:54Right here.
32:58I see what you're thinking.
33:00Guys, clear a space here.
33:01Give me a hand.
33:02Give me a hand with this.
33:07Right in the middle.
33:07The obvious analogy is with a jigsaw puzzle.
33:18You have all the pieces, but they don't make sense
33:21until you start putting them back together again to form a picture.
33:33Looks like we found our explosion.
33:35When you put these pieces logically back together,
33:41then you can actually see the confines of the hole.
33:47The finding backs up the CVR analysis.
33:51They now have even more compelling evidence of an explosion
33:54in the left rear of the plane.
33:58Still searching for the cause of the explosion,
34:01they order a chemical analysis of debris from near the blast area.
34:06Airplane crash investigations is about looking deeply into the minutiae,
34:10looking deeply into every single possible detail.
34:14What the laboratory forensic chemist would do
34:18is to extract that residue off of these components
34:23and run it through the instrumentation
34:26that would tell you whether that you have presence
34:29of actual unbelievably small quantities
34:34of undetonated explosives.
34:37The lab tests are conclusive.
34:40There is bomb residue on the wreckage.
34:43Flight 9268 was blown out of the sky
34:46by an onboard explosive device.
34:48Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi makes a public statement
35:08blaming terrorists for the deadly air disaster.
35:11His statement echoes that of Russia's federal security service.
35:31It was a terrorist bombing.
35:33A major piece of the puzzle is now solved.
35:37But important questions about the metrajet bombing remain.
35:41We know this aircraft was brought down by an explosive.
35:45How did the explosive get on board and in what form was it?
35:53Was there someone on board?
35:57I need a background check on every single one of these passengers, please.
36:02US and British intelligence agencies have revealed
36:05that they picked up chatter from English-speaking militant Islamists
36:09in the days leading up to the attack.
36:13It suggested something big was being planned for the Sinai.
36:17Take a look at this.
36:20That there was reportedly chatter in English
36:24indicated that ISIS Central's external operations units
36:28may have played a hand in this operation.
36:32Maybe it says ISIS.
36:33ISIS.
36:33Have a look at this.
36:43Between 2014 and 2016,
36:46Islamic State publishes an online propaganda magazine called Dabik.
36:50What is this?
36:50They have their own magazine.
36:53One issue contains a stunning claim.
36:55They say they packed the explosives in the soda can.
37:01That's frightening.
37:04But it makes sense.
37:05The quantity of explosives that could logically be secreted in that 12-ounce soda can,
37:11depending upon where it is in the aircraft,
37:15it would certainly be enough to cause it to crash.
37:20Investigators now wonder if a passenger somehow evaded airport security
37:24and smuggled the small device on board.
37:26This is the passenger who was seated in the area the bomb went off.
37:33You'll just need to put that under the seat for now.
37:42I've already looked into her.
37:44She was 15 years old, travelling with her mother.
37:47Absolutely no link to terrorism.
37:50Investigators need to narrow down the suspect list.
37:53They go through the entire passenger manifest,
37:58searching for anyone with any possible affiliation
38:00to ISIS or any other violent extremists.
38:04The search comes up empty.
38:10The investigative team returns to the wreckage,
38:14hoping to pinpoint the exact spot in the rear of the plane
38:17where the lethal device went off.
38:20Figuring out precisely where the bomb was placed
38:24could help unmask the person who placed it there.
38:32When you have evidence of shrapnel damage
38:35on other parts of the structure,
38:37it's maybe possible to actually estimate
38:40where the centre of the explosion was.
38:43They reconstruct the area of the plane
38:46where the blast took place.
38:48They even reconstruct the explosion itself.
38:51People have put thin steel rods
38:52through the holes caused by the shrapnel
38:55and just see where they all coincide,
38:59where they all point to.
39:00What that does is give you an indication
39:04of how the plane was ripped apart at that location.
39:10You will be able to see
39:12pieces of the skin of the aircraft,
39:16how it has been torn.
39:18That's good.
39:21That makes sense.
39:21It's the oversized luggage compartment in the hold.
39:29So it wasn't the passenger?
39:31No.
39:32Ground crew perhaps.
39:36Hundreds of people work as ground crew
39:38at Sharm El Sheikh Airport.
39:40They drive trucks, refuel planes, and handle baggage.
39:45Special security clearance gives most of them
39:48far greater access to aircraft than any passenger.
39:54Investigators focus on the personnel
39:56who were working on the morning of the bombing.
39:59I think we may have found our man.
40:03According to an unconfirmed report,
40:05the Islamic State found that one of its members
40:07had a relative working in the Sharm El Sheikh Airport.
40:12This put in motion the possibility
40:14of executing an attack at the airport.
40:16There is now ample evidence
40:19to support a compelling theory
40:21about what happened to Metrojet Flight 9268.
40:26When the time was right,
40:28the Islamic State was able to leverage
40:30this relationship and compel this relative
40:33who was a baggage handler
40:35to put a bomb in the plane.
40:38They may have bribed police NCOs
40:43to look the other way.
40:46They've done this before in previous attacks
40:48and were actually successful
40:49in recruiting police officers
40:51who were able to feed them necessary information
40:54or look the other way.
40:56Once passed security,
40:58the baggage handler would have no trouble
41:00loading the deadly device.
41:02As the Russian crew is about to head for home,
41:25they have no way of knowing
41:27that below them in the cargo hold
41:29is a bomb
41:30set to go off at cruising altitude.
41:35V-1, rotate.
41:38The airplane approaches 31,000 feet.
41:49Immediately after the explosion,
42:09within a matter of a second or two,
42:11the rest structure just starts to break up.
42:14The plane decompresses
42:23from the pressurization.
42:25That is the part that literally,
42:28and I can't say any more specifically,
42:30it rips the plane apart.
42:35There's no way to survive.
42:37The Metrojet event was game-changing
42:57for how seriously we have to take security.
42:59Even before an official report
43:09is published on the Metrojet disaster,
43:11air safety authorities call
43:13for tighter security screening
43:15for airport staff
43:16to reduce the odds of such a catastrophe
43:19ever happening again.
43:22Is there a screening process
43:23to make sure that the staff,
43:26over a period of time of employment,
43:28are not subverted
43:30by outside sources?
43:33Have their beliefs changed?
43:36Has an organization
43:37like Islamic State, for example,
43:41managed to convert somebody
43:43who's already in place
43:44having been security cleared?
43:47They should be throwing
43:49greater security resources
43:51in human terms and equipment terms.
43:54Is that going to be costly?
43:56Yes, it's going to be.
43:57But do we want to spend money now
43:59or do we want to spend lives later?
44:01We'll see you next time,
44:03Sean Hart.
44:04Check the free speech
44:05when it takes time to move
44:05Are we back on our daily training
44:06or the recommendations
44:08to enter into it?
44:09Let's do it.
44:10Well,
44:11keep going,
44:12and freaking up.
44:14Bye.
44:15Bye.
44:16Like I talked to you
44:17first grofrive.
44:20And,
44:20let's grow
44:22in Paul,
44:23make a performance
44:23like
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