No, there’s a specific set of injuries that are caused by the flailing of extremities when somebody is ejected from a breaking-up aircraft at high altitude and high speed. That’s what they’re saying these match. If the plane was intact and hit the water at high speed, they wouldn’t be finding intact bodies. They’d be finding bits, if that—the deceleration force would tear them apart.
In-flight breakup doesn’t necessarily mean a bomb, there’s several aircraft that have come apart as a result of metal fatigue and/or improper maintenance. But this A330 was only four years old, far too young for something like that. It could have been an “upset”, where the plane goes out of control and it broke up due to excessive speed or exceeding the maximum g-load it could handle. And, yes, it could’ve been a bomb of some kind, even something as small as Richard Reid’s “shoe bomb” if in the right place. It’s still too early to tell.
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And of course when the shuttle cabin was recovered they found “only bits” NOT they found in tact bodies. You apparently are not familiar with airline crashes into water.
But keep in mind that Airbus has a history of both multiple rudder losses and a vertical fin and rudder separation from the airframe. . .as was the case in NY with AA.
As an engineer friend of mine said, “A few years ago we had a storm come through, with gusts up to 60-70 kts., catching several A320s on the line, out in the open. The A320 elevators and rudder hinges shattered and the rudder and elevators came off. Upon closer inspection I realized that not only were the rear spars composite but so were the hinges. While Boeing also uses composite material in its airfoil structures, the actual attach fittings for the elevators, rudder, vertical and horizontal stabilizers are all of machined aluminum.”
Boeing does have a longer history of working with composites (fighters for decades now), so the 787 design incorporates many of those learning points to improve safety.
As to actual “cause” of the Air France breakup, unknown for now.