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The ground on the runway in kuala lumpur and take off in just a moment. fuel will be the real consideration. we believe they were loaded with seven hours of fuel. let me show you something here on the dash board. i can call up the fuel load. its listed here on this tv screen and these are the wing tanks. its got, well, nearly 20,000 kilos of fuel in each wing tank and nearly 30,000 in the center tank. our total fuel is nearly 70,000 kilos. thats not anywhere near as full of fuel as this plane co...

Conspiracy theorists believe we still dont know the truthful was it a bomb? a missile or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minutes after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport. it was just 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interviews later, claims that a u.s. navy ship had accidentally shot down airplane. finally, four years into it, terrorism and a friendly fire missile strike were ruled out. >> determines that the probable cause of the fl...

Was twa flight 800, conspiracy theorists believe we still dont know the truth. was it a bomb, a missile, or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minute after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport. it was july 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris-bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interviews later claims that a u.s. navy ship had accidentally shot down the airplane. finally, four years into it, terrorism and a friendly fire missile strike were ruled out. >> weve determined that th...

The conclusion, pilot error. in an attempt to recover from ice crystals affecting their speed sensors, the pilots pointed the nose upward rather than downward. 13 years before that crash there was twa flight 800, conspiracy theorists believe we still dont know the truth. was it a bomb, a missile, or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minutes after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport. it was july 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris-bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interview...

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....

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...

Section broke off and fell away. it was unmarked by smoke or fire. >> there was no soot damage or accumulation on any of these pieces or nose piece. >> reporter: almost impossible to believe for 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, so it continues to have its speed and velocity. >> reporter: there was not just one explosion, but two that doomed the plane. see the soo...

How does that happen? >> the airplane has momentum, so it continues to have its speed and velocity. >> reporter: there was not just one explosion, but two that doomed the plane. see the soot on this wreckage? that second blast half a minute later erupted when the left wing took away, leaking fuel from the much larger wing tank. what created that fireball everybody saw? >> as the fuel is misting in the air, this flares up and creates a large fireball and the pieces are dropping to the water. >> r...

And fall away. incredibly, the coach section kept flying for about 30 more seconds. evidence pointed not to one explosion but two. the second blast half a minute after the first erupted when the left wing tore away from the back half of the plane, leaking fuel from the much larger wing tank until something touched off a spark. that, they say, is why people saw a line of flames shooting upward. those eyewitness accounts of a trail of fire hit the internet less than 36 hours after the explosion. p...

>> it looked like a flame coming straight down. i thought it was coming from the ground up. the flame looked like it was shooting from the ground up. >> 230 men, women and children were aboard flight 800, everyone died. people thought terrorism immediately. an alert went out to the fbi. the navy sent state-of-the-art salvage ships, investigators recovered 97.5% of the plane in a giant hangar, they actually put twa 8 00 back together and reconstructed the planes last seconds. early on, they deter...