Could be. Any kind of pilot measures taken because of a smoke alarm wouldn't cause the plane to disintegrate and/or make those thre wild, terminal moves (90 left, 360 to the right, plummet to the sea). Something seriously bad was done to the plane, and given the altitude, it had to have been a bomb.
The first report was about debris being found from the aircraft, followed by a correction that it was not from the aircraft. I’m not sure how many days went by until debris from the aircraft WAS found, but it has now been confirmed by Egypt.
The debris field was reported early on as being 40 miles in length, and an oil slick found, was reported to be a mile in width, apparently drifting 90 degrees to the debris field’s direction. I’ve not heard of any more debris being found, and no talk about the veracity of the debris field find and it being 40 miles long, which I suppose... would disperse over time anyway.
After saying the plane did a 90 degree turn to the right, and a 360 degree turn to the left, then descended to 15,000’ finally disappearing from radar- a recent report said Egyptian authorities said the plane did not do a 90, or a 360, but simply vanished off radar at 37,000’.
I was skeptical when they said they had found the ping from the flight data recorder... expecting a retraction in the next day or two. Apparently the ping find is accurate info. The search size was reported to be the size of Connecticut, and now, it’s a 3 square mile area.
On earlier threads I mentioned that the 3-4 second data ping from this flight was similar to the blip of data sent out from the space shuttle as it catastrophically disintegrated.
I’m fairly sure a bomb’s explosion would set off a smoke alarm, just the same as a more conventional cause, like an electrical fire would. The fact that a final stream of data was sent back over a few seconds, lends itself to a catastrophic event having occurred, rather than a fire that would likely indicate telemetry to the ground for minutes. That the Egyptians are saying the data ended at 37,000, is even more of an indication of catastrophic disintegration.