G-CPTN:
Yes, I would expect (and hope for) that, but I would also expect that a "French military official" would not feed the NYT ... and that apparently happened.
Leaks like that are IMO not helpful to the job that the crash investigators are trying to do in a methodical way.
@SevereClear: I detect a bit of "filling in the blanks" in the breaking news story that you linked to. Thanks for the link anyway. If one ever needed an illustration of "if it bleeds it leads" in journalism, this one seems a textbook case.