intact on impact
I think this thread goes lost even more after the first report from Bea.
Let me clarify the thing about "intact on impact":
Bea says that the A330 was "not destroyed in flight". They can tell by the damage scars on the debries they found.
Now, what does that mean exactly? It doesn't necessarily mean that the aircraft flew (controlled or uncontrolled) into the water. It merely means what it says: it was still one entity at the impact.
It's very unlikely that they ditched. It's very unlikely that they glided towards the water for any reason.
The most likely theory is still the one with the iced probes, the unreliable speed and the inaptitude to control it. They got some stalls and some overspeeds. They may have lost some critical control surfaces (remember: they only found the tail, but not the elevator or the wings), the aircraft got uncontrollable and fell down, everything between high and low speed.
This aircraft was still "complete" as a whole. But it was not controllable. That's what Bea wants to tell us. Nothing else, nothing more.
Dani