Deepest apologies if this has already been said; I am two pages behind in catching up here:
Also - and echoing an earlier post - no information has come out about the cause of death identified in the bodies brought back to shore. Distressing as it is to the families, the condition of the bodies may be an important clue as to what happened to the plane.
I can't speak with any authority whatsoever, since I can't fly (and that's a
good thing), but the fact that the bodies recovered so far are, apparently, relatively intact, gives the lie to the preposterous speculation that the airplane was pointed straight down at impact. Wouldn't we have nothing left but small fragments in case of a high-velocity impact?
By the same token, if there had been a "water landing," you'd likely expect some death by drowning autopsy results.
