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Egyptian officials are urging patience. they say it could be a week or up to a month before we learn exactly what's on those black boxes. then possibly learning what brought down that jet. >> 2 you very much. i want to go to washington. rene, what are you learning about this heat flash that ian referred to picked up by u.s. military satellites? >> u.s. military sources are telling cnn's barbara starr this u.s. satellite detected this heat flash while the plane was still in flight. this new information suggests possibly an explosion caused by a bomb, but that flash could also be tied to somethi...

Impact on the bodies of the victims. no blast-related trauma. that doesn't necessarily rule anything out yet. in 1994, philippine airlines flight 434 had 273 passengers onboard and a bomb was onboard. that bomb killed one passenger and injured ten others. the pilot was able to land the plane and everyone else survived. the point here is no one truly knows yet what caused this crash. >> thank you very much. i want to go to bob baier and mary scalia. what do you think brought down the plane? >> it's looking more and more like a bomb. the flash is a considerable piece of evidence you wouldn't see...

Airport work, those are defeatable. or simply a timer is more sure and if you know the airplane is taking off and you hit the safety switch on that, you could also set it off. >> mary, i understand why authorities are hesitant to say this isis video is real. isis has given no proof they had anything to do with this. at the same time, you can see why authorities would be hesitant for a lot of reasons. if isis were responsible, that would be a game-changer. it would change perception of flight and safety. if not isis, if this is a bomb scenario, who else? >> well, could be any number of people. ...

Metro jet flight 9268 won't down. suggesting a possible explosion onboard the airbus jumbo jet. russian officials releasing this drone footage of the crash site. 224 people killed in this crash. this as isis is claiming responsibility for, quote, bringing down the jet. in this five-minute video, the terror group says, "we are not only going to shoot down your planes, but we will invade your country and slaughter your people." u.s. intelligence officials say isis has given no proof it was responsible, but investigators are desperately trying to determine if terror is to blame. egyptian authorit...

Now how a plane broke into pieces in mid-air. a possible explosion was detected by an american satellite moments before this jet went down. this is not the first time a passenger jet disintegrated in mid flight. some of the video we are about to show you is graphic. >> reporter: killing all 224 onboard feels eerily familiar to another major disaster. the 1996 explosion of twa flight 800 off long island. peter golds was one of the chief ntsb investigators of that disaster. like the metrojet crash, satellite imagery captured a heat signature. >> we had that same occurrence of twa flight 800. sat...