>> i think that everybody in the 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 data recorder on the bottom 130 feet down, but when the investigators opened up the boxes, they found no answers, only silence in the final seconds in the cockpit. >> the pilots didn't say, there is a guy on the plane with a gun to my head. the pilots didn't say anything, and the data didn't say