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Have no explosive residue on them indicating either it was torn apart or a small bomb inside. >> miles, u.s. officials are saying this is a catastrophic event in flight and could have been a bomb or a massive mechanical failure. you believe a bomb is a distinct possibility. >> i do, anderson. i harkin back to pan am 103 over lockerbie. you recall a small amount of plastic explosives that caused that plane to go down. a strategically placed bomb near the tail section and given where the tail section was found in proximity to the rest of had wreckage, strategically placed bomb there would not ha...

Intelligence, a cell phone conversation saying, the deed is done, we don't know what the intelligence is other than they have some piece of evidence. >> i gather it's not the latter, not someone saying the deed is done, but we don't know what the difference is. but it itself, neither of these two streams, neither the forensics, nor the intelligence are conclusive. but when you put them together, they believe that there's growing indications that it was a bomb. but they can't conclude what brought the plane down one way or another yet. >> tom, you've been looking at this as if it were a crash. ...

The tail section that had been nit a prior crash that had been potentially graphed as recently as may this year shows a potential for that tale fin to repair, not to appear as solid as it had been mechanically assessed, perhaps the tail of the aircraft broke off. they hering from their sources that the types of injuries that the passengers received in this aircraft fall into roughly two cat gores. those in front have a burn and trauma injuries, they say, indicative offaling from the sky. those in the back of the aircraft have explosionive injuries, injuries that have

Kate? >> thanks so much. i want to bring in tom costello. other officials talking to andrea mitchell saying it's likely, but premature to say that this was a bomb. what do you know about what investigators would be looking at at this point? >> well, one thing that has drawn their attention from the beginning is the fact that the tail section of this plane, as we've said before, landed a good three miles or so from the rest of the plane. so was the tail section torn off, as a result of an explosion, a bomb, or is it only coincidence that that is generally the area that had the tail strike in 20...

This is the oldest newspaper in st. petersberg, also the most respected newspaper in st. petersbu petersburg. and of course, that's where this plane was flying to. they are now reporting something different that we haven't heard until now. they're saying there are basically two types of injuries that the people onboard the aircraft sustained. there were those in the front section of the aircraft who sustained trauma and burns from falling, and those at the rear section of the aircraft, the tail section that experienced explosive trauma with metal fragments found inside the bodies. now, of cour...