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This is napalm. that is something that is indicative and characteristic of the napalm. are there countless numbers of explosives? there are dozens of types of explosives. reporter: investigators begin to narrow the possibilities with field tests like this one. a quickly analyzed residue. this orange points to a c-4 bomb. anthony says the severity depends on timing and placement and there isn t always visible proof. is it possible that an explosive can go off on a plane and there be no residue? it s possible that there could be no residue left. reporter: here s why. look at the wreckage from the metrojet crash, much of it consumed by fire. if you have melting aircraft parts, melting aluminum, it s mixing with the other parts that it could easily disguise any evidence of an ied. reporter: anthony says it s ....
Those statements in contradiction to egyptian statements. what are investigators looking for? kyung lah is outfront. reporter: the power of a bomb aboard a passenger plane. this demonstration by the u.s. attorney s office shows the end result. coming through the office. reporter: the beginning tracked by forensic bomb expert thomas anthony. is this a classic c-4 explosion? it is. less push and more force. we have less residue than a low explosive. reporter: starting with a c-4 bomb, he walks us through the impact of several types of bombs and the telltale signs they believe behind. reporter: the residue from the black powder coming from a central point, look at the edges here. the edges are very, very different. they have this sort of almost coral-like look to them. ....
This device and, fourth, what did the network do to get this on the aircraft. these guys cannot stay here because they will target another aircraft. thank you very much, phil mudd. you said they will target another aircraft. next, we ll go inside a bomb lab to show you what investigators are looking at right now and whether they can figure out what sort of a bomb this might have been sfoo plu. plus, egypt is saying there s still no evidence to support that there was a bomb. (vo) what does the world run on? it runs on optimism. it s what sparks ideas. moves the world forward. invest with those who see the world as unstoppable. who have the curiosity to look beyond the expected ....
Of russian metrojet 9268, isis is claiming responsibility for killing the 224 people on board. in a new audio message, reportedly from the sinai branch, the militant group says find your black boxes and analyze them. we are the ones with god s blessing who brought it down. today, russian and egyptian officials insisting there s currently no evidence of a bomb. but u.s. officials say their intelligence is pointing to a bomb, possibly by one of isis least known affiliates. it has proved itself as a lethal, very sophisticated and very powerful terrorist organization over the past specifically two years and specifically over the last five years, since 2011. reporter: it was late last year that the terror group now called state of sinai group ....
Video. they are marking the plane with what looks like some sort of a sophisticated magic marker. what are they doing there. you have to know where to look with this residue. to do that, you have to look for what is the initial fracture point in the fuselage. what they are doing there is looking at the metallergy, which way it s pointing. if it s from a bomb or any kind of internal pressure change, it s going to push that metal in certain ways and as it breaks, it makes a little indication. doing in the investigation, we - make arrows pointing to where that fracture point is leading us, where that information that you see on the field is pointing to. so when you do assemble the aircraft and bob is right about the egyptians, they may not have that sophistication but i m hoping that they bring in people who have done this before, like the flight 800 team. ....