Air France A330 Atlantic Crash Broke On Impact

Although the flight data and cockpit recorders have not been found, evidence from the parts recovered from the plane indicate that the plane broke up after belly flopping at high speed, according to the BBC. Compression tears from the recovered parts indicate upward pressure on the bottom of the aircraft, rather than breaking up in all directions. It was already known that the plane was giving erroneous speed readings and reports of subsystem failures like the autothrottle and auto pilot before the crash, with initial suspicions pointing to the air speed sensors.