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Abandoned fire house. >> the floor was heaving. and it -- smoke burst right through -- right in front of my jump suit. >> it was as if we were in the middle of a big fire ball. every passenger window was illuminated orange. >> i could see every passenger that could possibly have a view of me staring at me, looking for an answer. >> flight attendants began shouting orders to evacuate, but because of the raging fire, none of the left exit doors can be used. the front right exit door is damaged and won't stay open. only a few are able to escape from there. >> we jump out of the aircraft. i pushed...

And i flicked on the landing lights to let them know that i saw them. and at that exact instant he blew up. exploded right in front of me. it was a big fire ball. and almost immediately you could see the two wings fall off. and the fuel was obviously coming out of the wings and the wings were on fire. so there were these long fiery streamers going about 3,000 to 4,000 feet all the way down to the water. i reported almost immediately, there's been an inflight explosion. >> we just saw an explosion out here. >> i missed it. did you say something else? >> we just saw an explosion. about 16,000 fe...

When this event occurred, the breaking up of the airplane and the nose fell off, i'm sure he didn't see that. because the airplane is now unlit and the nose is dark and the surrounding water is dark. so what he probably saw was the fire ball when it occurred. >> the fbi 16 months into their investigation determined that there was no evidence of a bomb or a missile. and they closed their active investigation. the ntsb then took over. four years later the ntsb came out with their probable cause. >> good morning and welcome to this meeting of the national transportation safety board. this leads t...

>> closure for me is recovering the bodies. that's my number one priority. i had three people on that plane and i cannot leave one of them out there. >> that was really the only thing that mattered. while the fbi and the ntsb and everybody else was off running exactly trying to figure out exactly what happened in this crash. >> we have a massive investigation ongoing. of the fbi's twa investigation.- when this tragedy happen, the country was a very high state of alert. within a day and a half, i had a thousand agents working on the case. i immediately thought this was more than likely terroris...

16,000 feet headed out over the water. it was dusk around 8:30 in the evening. you could see a long ways, a good 50, 60, 70 miles or more. i saw this flight departing out of jfk with a bright light kind of, yellowish in colors and i mentioned to my first officer and we thought that possibly might have been a fire boot. wasn't no smoke or anything and it was probably the landing light. they were crossing our flight path, moving from the right to the left so we had a very good sight of them and were about 13 mile ace head of us and i flicked on the landing lights to let them know i saw them and ...