It’s too easy...if it were a bomb they would have known right away from the debris...and we have heard nothing of burn marks, etc. The airbus broke apart and came down in several pieces.
Per the article, no debris has been picked up yet.
You're absolutely right about evidence of an explosion (or no explosion for that matter) that would be left on the debris. But, as of around 6:00pm EST, no ships had yet reached the debris field and no debris had actually been collected from the sea, only spotted by planes from above.
“It’s too easy...if it were a bomb they would have known right away from the debris...and we have heard nothing of burn marks, etc. The airbus broke apart and came down in several pieces.”
FYI, they havn’t recovered or INSPECTED any of the pieces yet.
Not that I know anything about the structure of this aircraft, but a small targeted shaped explosive charge could possibly damage a critical stress point with no explosion heard by crew and passengers. The structure would then be weakened and could vibrate and flap with increasing ferocity until it just breaks apart. There could be little fire and what fire there is at the heart of the explosion could be extinguished before any fuel tanks or lines become damaged from subsequent vibration of the structure.
In that case, the area damaged and burned by the explosive charge would be small. The fragments of course would fall away immediately and be near impossible to find. Any large pieces would most likely sink. Most pieces would be from areas away from the burn damage. The odds of finding one floating from exactly the right place are not high given the large debris field area and relatively small surface area of the plane.
The crew did report "severe turbulence" in the storms when other aircraft did not have such a bad time. It is possible the storms were a distracting coincidence or a cause factor.
I'm not proposing this as a conspiracy theory nut saying this did happen.
I'm proposing it as a possibility as someone who has done root cause investigations in industry.
You can't rule anything out until the evidence rules it out. It could have been some sort of freak lighting hit, it could have been a brittle fracture in a critical stress point of the structure, it could have been terrorism, wind shear damage, who knows what else. None of us will know until the ships arrive to collect debris, there is an investigation and a report. Even then, there may still be doubt.