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Government justice and the fbi and everybody to my knowledge thought it was highly likely to be an act of terrorism, but again, they were asking me for the proof or evidence, and we didnt have any. >> and day after day, flying is the safest form of travel, and disasters are rare, and when they do occur, more often than not, they are the result of human error. a pilots mistaken judgment, and this time it was not which is what made the crash of twa 800 so puzzling from the beginning and so astonis...

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 flies 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 a missile, not so says the ntsb...

So-called proof of a friendly fire cover-up. >> i have friends in high places, and they were in private industry, but they were in interface with the government agencies. >> these friends in high places also gave russell a tape of a new york area radar showing the last moments of twa 800. >> talk me through this. what are we looking at right here? >> well, this is twa 800, the time is 8:29:29. >> you can see the blip that is flight 800 stop in mid flight. >> and you can see it coast. >> what doe...

>> so, who to believe? what to believe? on the 10th anniversary of the crash, cnn did its own investigation. >> a blowup in the air and then we saw two fireballs going down into the water. >> that is the voice of david mcclane piloting the 737 over long island and a bright light caught his eye. >> all of the sudden, boom. almost instantly a fraction of a second later, two streams of flames came out of the bottomf of it. >> another pilot, captain paul wheeler was in the cockpit of a virgin flight...

This was twa 800, the same 747 seen at jfk airport in new york two years before the tragedy. this is twa 800 now. most of the fuselage reassembled at an ntsb hangar outside of washington, d.c. without the wings, tail or cockpit. you can actually see where the plane came apart. you can see the dark smoke parts behind the rip in the planes body, and ahead of it, the front part is clean, and that is where the first class section and cockpit fell off. the explosion was here. in the center fuel tank....

>> and no reason for a missile or a bomb. >> wayne rogers lost a daughter 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 terrorist...

Might have stayed simply an internet conspiracy theory had it not been for this man. >> it is a document that i got about five weeks ago from an intelligence agent from france who had been doing an inquiry, and had some contacts with people in the u.s. navy. >> it was pierre salinger, a former white house secretary, u.s. senator and network correspondent who went public. salinger who died in 2004 claimed to have official proof that a navy missile shot down twa 800 specifically naming this ship t...

This in this aircraft? >> we examined every piece of this airplane and not one piece had any of these characteristic signatures of an explosion of a bomb or missile. >> the final judgment of the ntsb, the tragedy of twa 800 was not an act of terrorism. instead, the huge plane blew up on its own an apparently the victim of a fundamental flaw in aircraft design and engineering. for many families, that conclusion was no less devastating. >> would it have been any easier to deal with if it had been ...

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. >> would that statement have been in your analysis? >> if i got the write one. >> according to its press re...

B bigger than the end of the pencil. >> right. these are small particles and going very fast and when they hit the surface, they create a pit or this microcrater. >> did you find anything like this in this aircraft? >> we examined every piece of this airplane and not one piece had any of these characteristic signatures of an explosion of a bomb or missile. >> the final judgment of the ntsb, the tragedy of twa 800 was not an act of terrorism. instead, the huge plane blew up on its own an apparent...