[WarDores]

Yeah, the publicly available flight information shows it basically exploded wholesale in mid-air. That doesn't just happen with modern aircraft.

[megous]

How so? Debris field doesn't look that large and the supposed video of the crash shows burning plane and large explosion on impact to the ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_iizkgIOfU

[WarDores]

The flight information on FlightRadar24 shows no sign of deviation or trouble, then abruptly ends during the ascent. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-cr...

[GoToRO]

It was not that high, so the area is smaller than it would have been if the plane would have fallen from 10000 km altitude.

[vanniv]

Well, most airframes will explode wholesale in mid-air when they come into contact with anti-aircraft missiles

(which, of course, was your point -- and also, as it turns out, what happened)

[GoToRO]

Also the way the debris were scattered on the ground suggests an explosion. This also correlates with what they said about no mayday call from the aircraft. It was taken down or it was a collission with a drone or something like that.