Something close to the passenger side on the right wing (possibly the right engine?) appears to have exploded; at any case, the engine fell off and the plane spiralled almost straight down.

The talking heads are, of course, getting their face time again, and getting many parts of the story wrong again. Jennings and at least one of the others were esaying "This is not a terrorist attack" when in fact the government is saying "There is no evidence of a terrorist attack".

In fact, they don't know what actually caused it, whether it was a duck flying into the engine, maintenance failure, or (gasp) dare we even panic those poor impressionable American people by thinking of a bomb?

Hell, they may not know for sure for months or years.

Whatever the findings, the conspiracy nuts will love it (remember TWA 800?).