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Government justice and the fbi and everybody to my knowledge thought it was highly likely to be an act of terrorism, but again, they were asking me for the proof or evidence, and we didn't have any. >> and day after day, flying is the safest form of travel, and disasters are rare, and when they do occur, more often than not, they are the result of human error. a pilot's mistaken judgment, and this time it was not which is what made the crash of twa 800 so puzzling from the beginning and so astonishing at the end. within a week, the navy divers found the black boxes of the plane, and the flight...

Center fuel tank blast rips away the bottom of the plane. the cockpit and the nose section plunge into the sea. for another half minute or so, the decapitated plane flies on. then it loses momentum and begins the deadly drop toward the ocean below. the fireball as seen as far as 40 miles away in connecticut just under a minute after the center tank explosion, what is left of twa 800 crashes into the sea. all those people who thought they saw a flare or a rocket or a missile, not so says the ntsb. missiles leave pock marks on the metal. this part came from an unplanned aircraft shot down in an ...

So-called proof of a friendly fire cover-up. >> i have friends in high places, and they were in private industry, but they were in interface with the government agencies. >> these friends in high places also gave russell a tape of a new york area radar showing the last moments of twa 800. >> talk me through this. what are we looking at right here? >> well, this is twa 800, the time is 8:29:29. >> you can see the blip that is flight 800 stop in mid flight. >> and you can see it coast. >> what does that mean? >> that means that there is no more signal coming from twa 800. >> that is where it hap...

>> so, who to believe? what to believe? on the 10th anniversary of the crash, cnn did its own investigation. >> a blowup in the air and then we saw two fireballs going down into the water. >> that is the voice of david mcclane piloting the 737 over long island and a bright light caught his eye. >> all of the sudden, boom. almost instantly a fraction of a second later, two streams of flames came out of the bottomf of it. >> another pilot, captain paul wheeler was in the cockpit of a virgin flight, and he wrote in the logbook, saw twa 800 crash. >> i would see the fuselage and the windows and bi...

This was twa 800, the same 747 seen at jfk airport in new york two years before the tragedy. this is twa 800 now. most of the fuselage reassembled at an ntsb hangar outside of washington, d.c. without the wings, tail or cockpit. you can actually see where the plane came apart. you can see the dark smoke parts behind the rip in the plane's body, and ahead of it, the front part is clean, and that is where the first class section and cockpit fell off. the explosion was here. in the center fuel tank. i'm really struck by the size. you could really park a couple of cars in here. >> the fuel tanks a...