Exploded no, they flew into a large thunderstorm and got ripped apart!
No aircraft can survive the windsheer of a large thunderstorm and from the radar imiages shown on TV no aircraft ever made would survive if they even entered the edge.
If that is true, how do they then manage to send airplanes directly into hurricanes to make measurements???
Please immedately contact the hurricane hunter air crews, they need to know this before they fly into another hurricane!
Well, yeah.... But hey, bombs are much more sexy and they get much better media coverage.
Of course, the "experts" must have considered the fact that a plane breaking apart at 500+ knots from structural failure at 35K feet in highly turbulent conditions would result in a widely dispersed debris field, too....
And they must have considered the fact that it would take a pretty huge bomb to create such a widely-spread debris field on its own, without atmospheric help.
And we would certainly expect them to acknowledge that if the atmosphere did help to spread the debris, the need for a "bomb" to explain it goes away....
And of course they would have taken account of the effects of ocean currents and winds on whatever debris was floating on the surface.
We simply couldn't assume that such "experts" were just trying to get media coverage for a sensational angle. Surely they wouldn't do that....