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As the sun was about to set, she looked out toward the ocean when she saw the explosion. in 1996, lavigne shared her story with cnn. the fbi interviewed her twice. >> the little red dot went up like this, sort of curved, came to a point where i thought little fireworks were going to come down, and there were these fixed streams of fire. >> reporter: a decade later, her sketch remains unchanged. >> deep down, i think it was a missile. but i know that its been refuted. i just know that it goes aga...

>> reporter: cnn created this animation of what the ntsb describes as the last moments of twa 800. only 12 minutes after takeoff, the center fuel tank blast rips away the bottom of the plane. the cockpit and nose section plunge into the season. for another half minute or so, the decapitated plane flies on, then loses momentum and begins its drop to the ocean below. the fireball is seen as far away as 40 miles. what is left of twa 800 crashes into the sea. all those people who thought they saw a ...

It was an all too eerie echo of the bombing of pan am 103 in 1988. another jet decapitated. the explosives hidden in a suitcase by libyan terrorists. leon panetta was president clintons chief of staff. >> when a 747 blows up as the one did in scotland, your first assumption is that this is not an accident, this is a deliberate act. whether its a bomb, a missile or what took place, somebody was responsible for blowing up that airplane. >> reporter: had the pan am flight not been running late, it ...

The pilots were helpless, unaware that their 747 had been beheaded. it was an all too eerie echo of the bombing of pan am 103 in 1988. another jet decapitated. the explosives hidden in a suitcase by libyan terrorists. leon panetta was president clintons chief of staff. >> when a 747 blows up as the one did in scotland, your first assumption is that this is not an accident, this is a deliberate act. whether its a bomb, a missile or what took place, somebody was responsible for blowing up that air...

Then loses momentum and begins its drop to the ocean below. the fireball is seen as far away as 40 miles. 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. missiles leave pock marks on metal. >> you see the shredded metal here. >> reporter: this part came from an unmanned aircraft shot down in an fbi test. that pit is no bigger than the end of a pencil. >> thats right. these are smart particles going very f...