depressurize, and that hole will continue down the length of the plane. reporter: images of flight 9268 indicate a midair breakup, the tail section three miles from the main debris field. in the wreckage, you can make out the wings, the fuselage in front, noticeably missing the back of the passenger jet. in december 1988, pan am flight 103 was brought down by a suitcase bomb placed in a container with other luggage. the plastic explosives set on a timer exploded over lockerbie, scotland. the blast punched a 20-inch hole in the plane s left side just in front of the wings, the 747 disintegrated seconds after the blast. the plane s nose tore away. 259 on board and 11 people on the ground died. investigators eventually found pieces of the luggage that carried the bomb and a small fragment of a circuit board used as the timer, most importantly.
all 224 people aboard were killed. we re now awaiting information from the plane s black boxes. they ve been found and sent to die rho for analysis. also tonight we have new details about the u.s. military strategy against isis. just days after the pentagon confirmed deployment of the first ground troops in syria, we re learning about discussions to further expand the u.s. military mission there. i ll ask congresswoman actualsi gab art about that. and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. up first, rene marsh, what are you learning about this disaster over sinai. an aggressive chapter is operating in the sigh nine peninsula where this passenger plane disintegrated. tonight investigator cannot rule out terrorism, but they don t have evidence of it, either. so if the midair breakup was not