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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 soot on this wreckage? that second blast half a minute later erupted when the left wing took away, leak...

>> reporter: when the plane starts to come apart, this is where it happens? >> yes. this piece we're looking at here is the first piece that fractures away and it makes a big hole as it drops down. it's a pressurized cabin. the explosion weakens the structure of the plane. the air pressure starts to blow itself apart. >> reporter: things are flying out with the luggage, passengers, as well. the galley area is up here, that's going out, as well? >> any structure or any time of things from inside the airplane that's loose, those things are free to be pushed out of this hole. >> reporter: the fir...

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. people speculated it was a terrorist surface-to-air missile. then a document began circulating on the...

Them out for it. >> all right. pretty essential. i would have to agree with you. this is pretty essential. we're talking about united airlines and a 5,4001 mile flight, and when you hear what they were short on -- by the way, they knew they were short, but they didn't want to delay the flight, so they took off anyway. united flight 931 from london to san francisco flying high but running low on what some would say is essential on a ten-hour flight, toilet paper. a passenger snapped this photo of the airline's quick fix. a makeshift toilet paper holder stuffed with cocktail napkins that read "f...

>> 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 plane's last seconds. early on, they determined the center fuel tank blew up. causing the nose and first-class section of the jet to break of...