Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Say a prayer for the people on board that Air France plane. Don’t know what brought it down, but as folks are discussing, lightning by itself isn’t likely, and turbulence alone aren’t going to cause the plane to crash by itself.

It’s too soon to rule anything out, and while terrorism is a possibility, until the systems are recovered, there’s no way to know for sure.

The fact that this event took place hundreds miles out to sea makes recovery of the plane all that more difficult.