[McGruff]

Strange debris field.

No larger pieces at all from the video

BREAKING Crash of an A320 in south of France - more details

[apoliticalone]

It is absurd that the commercial airlines are not required to continuously stream and broadcast in real time all black box data to receiving stations around the world. When a commercial airliner goes down or is lost, we need to know immediately the potential causes and what went wrong up to the point of destruction. Speculation and waiting to find an elusive black box only wastes time.

Instead the airlines continuously attempt to squeeze out more profits through less service, and by adding fees, surcharges, and squeezing more bodies into less seat space, while always having their hand out to government for subsidies when things go wrong like 9-11 and other tragic events. What do the resulting searches cost all taxpayers?

[fivecatsandadog]

Looks to me like debris from a mid-air explosion.

[CedarDave]

From your link. Air speed was just under 400 kts just before contact was lost. A fast but mostly steady descent, almost constant air speed, no large pieces, wide debris field - any thing to be speculated with this info?

[maggief]