1.   As the plane exploded, the metal of the fuselage was blown outwards.

2.   Seconds after Andrews had dragged away the pilot, the plane exploded, and was reduced to a smouldering wreck.

3.   The hijacked plane exploded in a ball of fire.

4.   As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded.

5.   Amirul Husni, a first sergeant at Sungsang police station, said he was patrolling the area by speedboat when the plane exploded overhead, the paper said.

6.   As they gunned the engines to regain altitude, the plane exploded.

7.   According to separate analyses by the FBI and the CIA, however, the witnesses never actually saw the plane explode.

8.   Bucci said that when the plane exploded, he was rushing toward the house in hopes of helping someone.

9.   Even if our plane did not explode when it hit the ground, chances were it would be engulfed in flames soon after.

10.   Indonesian newspapers quoted police who said they heard an explosion and one policeman patrolling the area told the Jakarta Post he saw a plane explode overhead.