Yeah, granted the "aluminium balloon jab" was a bit simplistic, but I guess I'm just a bit shocked at the degree of breakup of MH17, the "cripple7" is a strong aircraft, the 'Frisco accident demoed that, but I'm trying to make sense of this. Not that degree of breakup would have made any difference to the poor pax. This missile it seems, tracks to a predicted intercept point, so it makes sense it hit the cockpit area as evidence suggests so far at this early stage. A large hole there and would explosive decompression have broken the cockpit away? Possibly then violent pitch up/pitch down causing the wings to fail and that would probably do it.