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? >> that's as the fuel is misting into the air, it finds the ignition source and flares up to create the fireball as the pieces are dropping to the water. >> cnn created this animation of what the ntsb describes as the last moments of twa 800. only 12:00 after takeoff, the