After ruling out both a bomb and a gas tank explosion, investigators are stumped. They examine hundreds of pieces of wreckage until they uncover a single piece of the hull which solves the riddle. The destruction of Flight 611 began with a much smaller problem — twenty years in the past.

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Mayday: Air Disaster From Season 7 Episode 1 "Scratching the Surface": May 25, 2002 — Twenty minutes after taking off from Taipei, a China Airlines 747 suddenly disappears from radar. A massive rescue mission is launched, but no survivors are found. All 225 people on board are killed.

Investigators study the scattered wreckage. But much of the plane is now at the bottom of the sea. Underwater cameras and remotely operated submarines scan the mangled pieces of the broken plane. Investigators are able to rule out a bomb — or an explosion in the plane’s fuel tank. But they still don’t know what brought the jet down.

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