[Big_Monkey]

Practically brand-new airplanes don't "blow-up" at altitude without some kind of intervening action or cause.

[r9etb]

Practically brand-new airplanes don't "blow-up" at altitude without some kind of intervening action or cause.

You mean like, say, flying into a line of big-ass thunderstorms?

[Cyman]

“Practically brand-new airplanes don’t “blow-up” at altitude without some kind of intervening action or cause”

Agreed. But if there were external forces eg bomb there is usually a boastful pronouncement of responsibility. Terrorism doesn’t work in a silent world.