Pprune is an aviation rumour network. Rumours are rife in aviation (tell me about it, I have worked in that industry for eons) and a lot of people on Pprune are plane spotters.
Very short film clip of the piece on BBC. Maybe 6ft long and half as tall as the people handling it. Looked almost aerofoil section, as seen end-on.
No surface dents, wrinkles, or cracks. Nothing to indicate high velocity impact with water. If you recall the Comoros ditching, then I'm suggesting this piece entered the water more gently than that.
Mikey
Good morning. May be there is a cut off point across vast tracks of ocean which no country's radar will reach. A sort of black spot and the pilot knew where they were. That is one wild guess.
It is a very interesting piece of news worth following. I think I'll always speculate, until proved wrong, that this was a deliberate act by the pilot to fly into oblivion until it crashed.