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They the expected it to last over four hours. it's a routine run taken by hundreds every week. flight tracking data shows the plane taking off. heading over eastern pennsylvania. climbing to an altitude of just over 32,000 feet when about 20 minutes into the trip every passenger and the pilots' worst nightmare happened. >> there was an explosion when the engine went. >> i hear this noise, and everything shakes up. and i look outside, and it's totally broken apart. folded bag on itself. >> the masks came down, and people were putting them on. and basically i think all of us thought this might b...

Was a fire ball. >> reporter: but it didn't smain why. it was simply a clue. unexplained split second sounds. the similarities lead them to believe a fuel tank might have exploded. three miles away was the tail section. that holds another clue. possible structural failure. in november 2001, the airbus tail hit the tarmac on landing. the plane was repaired. a clear break from the rest of the debris raises this possibility. >> it could have been a structural failure of the plane that rp tured so the explosion could have been coming after whatever event initiated the break-up. >> reporter: flight...

Responder who arrived at the plane for their knives so they could cut passengers free and get everybody out. >> amazing stories that we're only now just learning. thanks so much miguel. we'll get to the ntsb chairman in just a moment. but i want to bring in richard quest. i know you've been looking at the flight tracking data and you've learned more about the speed and altitude of the plane just before the crash. what do you know? >> reporter: if we look at the profile of the descent that miguel was just talking about there, what we're now learning is we know how, we don't know why. this pla...

Investigation. but it's also a pretty safe bet comey will also be asked what he knows about a mysterious december meeting between presidential son-in-law jared kushner and sergei gorkov, a russian spy turned banker who's tight with vladimir putin. the post reports today that flight tracking data show a plane routinely used by gorkov traveled from moscow to now aand then to tokyo where president putin was at the time. what was on the agenda? >> mr. gorkov, quick question. what did you really speak to jared kushner about in new york when you met him in december? did you talk about sanctions? >> ...