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Catastrophic in-flight event. that heat flash is similar to the red flash people witnessed when twa crashed. and that turned out to be the plane already on fire at 8400 feet in the night sky. whatever it was that brought the russian jet down caused the tail to break apart from the airplane. when that happened will be key to the investigation. so will the burn marks in the desert, he says. the airplane hit the ground and didn't scatter. possibly preserving important clues. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> and he joins us now and holds the detinction of the first certified airplane and power plant ...

>> in the end, investigators determined that 800's center fuel tank exploded, causing the plane to break apart. the government said there was no proof of a criminal act. he expects the same type of conspiracy theories will result from the crash of metrojet's 9268. there is already talk of a missile and a bomb. a heat flash detected at the time of the crash suggests a catastrophic inflight event. that heat flash is similar to the red flash that people witnessed when twa crashed and that determined to be the plane already on fire at 8400 feet in the night sky. whatever brought the russian jet do...

Tail would be intact and would you see that rupture of the fuel tank. >> let's look at the plane's tail. that was the last piece they were focusing on today on the ground. it was found separated from other pieces of the plane. it was the largest single piece of wreckage that was found. taking that into account, taking its location separate from the rest of the wreckage, what do you conclude? >> i also saw very key piece which was a tail cone which the apu fresh out of the factory looks different. i stared at those photos trying to see if there were burn marks. in some photos, looks like there ...

Combustion. you get flame and smoke which inevitably leaves its mark on the aircraft in the wreckage when it is inspected. the other kind of explosion which is very, very rare which may well have happened in this case is called an explosive decompression of the plane which is kind of a clean explosion. you get no flame, no smoke, and if you think of the cabin of the plane as a tube with a lid on the end of it, and if the tail end of that plane -- lid on the tail end of that plane -- you get an extraordinary force outwards which would break off the tail in this manner. i'm not saying for sure t...

Intact, and none of them had significant burn marks. so what we have now is a lot of the different pieces of information, and everyone really trying to put the puzzle together, but what is vital at this stage is retrieving the data from the two black boxes. when that is going to happen, we are not entirely sure at this stage, but from what we know, they have not been that severely damaged, and so hopefully the x experts can extract that information fairly quickly, but both the russians and the egyptians at this stage not entirely ruling out terrorism, but significantly down playing that may ha...