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Ping from the plane missing a month in. electronic signals reportedly detektsed by a chinese ship yesterday are consistent with an aircrafts black box. but the reports have not been confirmed as some say it could be a whale. >> the black box has been detected, but are they actually going to locate it? >> she was diving in at the salvage officer and was involved in the flight twa this morning. >> good morning. how do they go about going down to -- >> if they do decide that this is a black box, th...

That for about 30 seconds more, the coach section kept flying. the plane is flying without the forward third of it still attached. how does that happen? >> the airplane has momentum and it does not stop in the air when it happens so it continues with the speed and the velocity. >> there was not just one explosion. but two that doomed the plane. you see the soot on the wreckage? that second blast half a minute later erupted when the left wing tore away leaking fuel from the much larger wing tank....

After four years of investigation, an electrical short circuit inside the plane was declared the culprit. but now, 17 years later, a new documentary claims to have proof to support a not so new conspiracy theory about twa flight 800. >> what we do show in documentary is solid proof that there was an external detonation, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data. >> primary conclusion was that the explosive forces came from outside of the airplane, not the center fuel tank. >...

And two granddaughters on the twa flight 800. >> shannon was the oldest. a little doll. she was a lady. and katy was the tomboy. she was fiesty, and kind of like pam in a way. >> rogers flew to new york where the families were staying in an airport hotel, and he was thinking terrorism, and so were many others. >> what did they want to do? >> we wanted to attack whoever done these destruction to us, yes. if it was terrorists in the middle east, go over to bomb them and do whatever we have to do. ...

The plane was in over a million pieces. a million pieces. >> the fbis jim kallstrom arrived before dawn at this coast guard station facing the toughest day of his career, convinced that the crash of twa 800 was an act of terrorism. >> if it was, the crime scene was all of long island and a good portion of the atlantic ocean. >> as the fog lifted from the sea that morning, this is what kallstrom saw. >> once you get to the site which i did early the next morning at first light and you see the deb...

Only 12:00 after takeoff, the center fuel tank blast rips away the bottom of the plane. the cockpit and the nose section plunge into the sea. for another half minute or so, the decapitated plane fleiss on. then it loses momentum and begins the deadly drop toward the ocean below. the fireball as seen as far as 40 miles away in connecticut just under a minute after the center tank explosion, what is left of twa 800 crashes into the sea. all those people who thought they saw a flare or a rocket or ...

>> twa flight 800, a 747 like this was one of several hundred flights at jfk airport that day in new york. what made it special is what it meant to the people on board. missouri sisters couldnt wait to get started on their trip to france. >> you know, i could almost visualize them, you know, on the plane having a good time, and that there would not be any sleeping i dont think. >> older sister crisha was going to be married. >> i looked at it as a last chance to be sisters and do silly things to...

The plane is flying without the forward third of it still attached. how does that happen? >> the airplane has momentum and it does not stop in the air when it happens so it continues with the speed and the velocity. >> there was not just one explosion. but two that doomed the plane. you see the soot on the wreckage? that second blast half a minute later erupted when the left wing tore away leaking fuel from the much larger wing tank. what created that fireball that everybody saw? >> thats as the...

There. from the luggage under the bins where the planer to apart, the passenger seats, the landing gear, and anywhere investigators decided to find tiny imprints or tiny bits of bomb materiel imbedded in the plane, again, nothing. >> we had the overhead racks and the seats and the floor tiles and the fuel tank and all of the piece, and we saw no evidence of an explosion at all. >> promising clues turned into dead ends. bob francis ran the national transportation safety board investigation. >> tr...

Washington for testing. and the part disappeared never to be returned. >> and he and others believe that the ntsb concealed evidence and never answered questions they raised. >> twa flight 800 is a watershed moment that look at what we can get away with even in the information age. >> the films producers has asked them to reopen up the investigation. >> we took the missile theory and the possibility that the missile brought down the plane very, very seriously, and at that time in 96, we were in ...