Originally Posted by
jugofpropwash
This may have been stated, but if so, I missed it. Do we know if the flight was on time? Assuming a timed device, a flight which was ahead or behind schedule could affect where the device went off. This incident seemed to be relatively close to land - wouldn't a terrorist prefer to blow up a flight further from shore where presumably the water would be deeper, and it would be more difficult to recover evidence?
The schedule was for it to depart at 10.45pm, the info on the CDG website said it left at 11.09pm.