Originally Posted by
JanetFlight
If this 2 items are true, can we be in the presence of some fuselage ruptured, explosive decompression or even structural failure?
First of all:
Again, there are not too many proven ways to get a modern airliner crashing down from cruise altitude.
One of the few ways that will surely lead to this is any kind of explosive device. Be it from the outside (shot down - not so likely) or the inside.
And these two bits of information seems to fit quite well to this kind of incident.
The only mysterious bit in such an instance would be why there was no distress call received.
Structural failure would theoretically be another possibility but in a pretty new aircraft of a type with a (so far) impeccable record this doesn't seem terribly likely.
Occam's Razor says: Rather Not.
Here's waiting for more information.