I remember it indeed Wino - I was 20 minutes behind TWA and posted a pirep on the weather conditions on the same thread as yours.
I was glued to the side window watching the whole ghastly thing happening in the water but, working the upper frequencies, had no idea exactly what I was looking at until we landed at BGR.
It was a Nordstress/ Alitalia 767 crew ahead of us who were closest to the explosion.
On a lighter note PPRuNe was well underway at the time - just smaller and, as yet, imperfectly formed
[ 11 August 2001: Message edited by: PPRuNe Towers ]