OAN news had someone on who said a little while ago that the bodies found were mostly naked, which shows that the plane either broke up in altitude, a bomb, or something in the air that caused a mid air breakup. The clothes are ripped off when the bodied fall at high speed.
There were lots of suitcases floating, lots of debris.
I found that information interesting about the naked bodies. They said it would be easy to tell if there were burns or other clues. If it broke up in mid air, it could have been due to heavy turbulence, which does not speak well for the AIRBUS.
Yes, the state of the bodies indicates the aircraft broke up in flight, probably at high altitude, indicating more than just a stall leading to the crash (AF447 hit the water intact after an extended stall).
Absolutely, there is nothing about this accident that would be good for the reputation of Airbus. The best investigation result for Airbus would be if the captain flew a perfectly good airplane directly into a thunderstorm. If the captain did that, the crash would be totally attributed to poor decision-making by the crew, with no blame on Airbus. No transport-category airplane could be expected to survive the extreme turbulence of a high-altitude thunderstorm.
The facts of this crash are likely to be less straightforward. If the autopilot disconnected because of pitot tube icing issues (as with AF447, an A330) or if the airplane pitched down uncontrollably because of angle of attack vane issues (similar to the Paris air show video -- an emergency tech order was issued about this on 9 Dec) then Airbus will be facing a huge backlash and endless lawsuits. Even an experienced pilot would be challenged by a high-altitude upset without reliable airpeed, especially in turbulence near deadly thunderstorms. Not to mention the fly-by-wire/sidestick configuration of Airbus jets is, well, to say the least, problematic.