[Don W]

Timeline from the sensors that broadcast during the flight:

To the untrained eyes, the data recorded by Flight 804’s sensors is a meaningless jumble of code and technical language:

00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW

00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR

00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE

00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE

00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR

00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT

00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT

But to an aviation professional, it tells a terrifying story of a series of cascading faults before the system went dead entirely. I spoke to a European airline pilot who helped make sense of the data from the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System).

The data on its own is far from definitive but the pilot believed “an internal explosion” seemed the most likely cause, explaining both the sudden problems with the windows and the smoke in the cabin. “It looks like the right front and side windows were blown out.

From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/21/egyptair-crash-—smoke-detected-inside-the-aircraft-cabin-as-sea/

[Yaelle]

Oh my, so sad, seeing the shoes and purse and scarves recovered. Completely SHREDDED and apparently blown to bits.

I pray it went so fast no one knew or felt a thing, no time for fear.

[thecodont]

"Last December around 70 red badges were withdrawn from staff at Charles de Gaulle who were found to have praised the attacks in Paris, prayed at mosques linked to radicalism or showing signs of growing religiosity like refusing to shake hands with women."

The handshake test. Let's start using it at our airports.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I don’t want to say it was a bomb. But it was a bomb. :-)

[cassiusking]

Cascade of failures is right- a slow motion account of an explosion

[Rockpile]

If the pilot’s moslem brotherhood buddies provided him with a small explosive unit and he, say, put it under the co-pilot’s seat that might possibly explain the window and computer failures and the smoke.
Could also have been in the avionics bay.

If moslem sabotage is confirmed expect the prancing chimps in places like the News Cartel or at Foggy Bottom to memory hole it right quickly.