‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ strong contender Ian Somerhalder could have been one of those killed in a plane crash almost two decades ago, and a documentary to tell the fatal explosion brought the hunk actor back to the tragic memory lane.

The 'Vampire Diaries' star took to Twitter on Wednesday and shared the horrible experience of those killed in plane crash involving TWA Flight 800 in 1996. The incident took 230 lives, tragically killing everyone on board. Ian could have suffered the same fate had he taken the wrong turn and decided to board the plane.

Ian greeted his followers on Twitter with the sad news, linking an article looking to review the case of the plane crash to give them bird’s eye view of what happened when he was just 17.

He tweeted: "I was Supposed to be on this FLIGHT!".

Ian’s Twitter post came following earlier soft launch of the documentary detailing the incident in 1996. Titled, ‘TWA Flight 800,’ the documentary is set to premiere on the incident’s 17th year anniversary on July 17. According to The Huffington Post, the latest documentary on the tragic flight will be aired on the EPIX premium television channel.

This is not the first time that a documentary was filmed to shed light on the fatal explosion. The film’s co-producer, Tom Stalcup, revealed that the latest project provides new evidence that there was an external detonation. It exploded 11 minutes after taking off from JFK Airport to France.

"Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out of that plane -- something that didn't happen in the official theory," Stalcup was quoted as telling CNN's New Day.

The flight was headed to Paris when it exploded. Earlier claims made by The National Transportation Safety Board that the cause of the explosion was an electrical short circuit, which according to report could have “originated in a fuel gauge line.” This line then “found its way into the center wing fuel tank, where it detonated fuel vapors and caused the B-747 to fall in pieces into the waters off Long Island.”

Stalcup added, that everyone was “all saying the same thing: that there was an external force -- not from the center wing tank, there's no evidence of that -- but there is evidence of an external explosion that brought down that plane.”

All 230 passengers died in an instant, and Ian Somerhalder could have been one of them.

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