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That theory. arguing it was instead an external blast. to discuss, i'm joined by jim polk, he's a pulitzer prize winning journalist and cnn investigative reporter and jack pashle, author of "first strike." jim, i want to start with you, you were part of a 2006 document area about the crash. tell me what you found? >> well, alison, to begin with, the dispute over whether a missile brought down a plane and not an external explosion begins with witnesses on the ground. a neb of them said they saw a streak in the sky. but there were two airline pilots who had a front row seat of this tragedy. it h...

Do you think happened if it wasn't an internal explosion like those two pilots saw? >> well, unlike what jim says there were 270 eyewitnesses to a missile strike. 96 of them, this is fbi witnesses, saw it from the horizon ascend all the way up to the plane. they all described it the same way. that is a red tip. a plume trail after it, gray. and then it gets near the plane, it arcs over, zigzags and breaks up. one of those witnesses described in detail the breakup sequence of the airplane, and she's an aviation specialist before the fbi even know what it was. the fbi recruited the cia to re-cre...