Did I lost something ?

posted to: Modeling the Body

I continue follow this course until at 3.48.I confuse the way you get a same body for the plane .Did you use Duplicate Tool or some thing?I try to continue by duplicate(Alt+D)  the plane body for body and body_block so i can continue the video then i face another problem when i try to delete the tail and the head of the body 

(Tab + Z + B + X) i got this

 and after i exit edit mode it i got this 

Have I done something wrong?

By the way I use Blender 2.79