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So far officially, it's "anonymous sources". The Egyptians were quick to claim that this was NOT terrorism. In fact, they claimed it about 5 minutes after the crash and shortly after the call came in with a terrorist group claiming responsibility.

Yesterday, after a quick cursory exam of the 2 black boxes, the Egyptians again ran out to the press and reiterated that there was no "outside intervention" (i.e. explosion from rpg or bomb), hence there was NO terrorism. But! As of yesterday, reports were that the voice recorder needed to be "closely" analyzed because it was noisy. The Egyptian investigator stated that they hadn't ruled out "mismanagement" of the flight.

There was no distress call from the pilot.
Pilot has strange (very) background.
Plane nosedived straight into the Red Sea.
Planeload of French passengers.
Call from terrorist organization claiming responsibility because of the French banning headscarves.

There was no distress call from the pilot.

This is the one thing that baffled me about this crash and made the whole technical malfunction explanation "hinky".