Originally Posted by
barrymung
It has been stated that one "expert" said that there could not have been an explosion on board due to unburned patches of kerosine on the sea. Yet eye witness reports from pilots suggest that there was a "bright flash" and around six burning objects falling through the sky, which suggests some sort of explosion.
Either the "expert" is wrong or the pilots who witnessed the event were wrong.
The Pilots were wrong. They were over 2,000km from the AF flight. They probably saw a large meteor. They did not see AF447.
See this post:
http://www.pprune.org/4974157-post912.html