Miles is a pilot and aviation enthusiast, and I've admired his work in the past.

I hope this bit of writing is more public-serving than self-serving. After all, we still know very, very little about what happened, aside from the data transmissions. Even speculating on structural disintegration is problematic because the obvious next question was: why wasn't the plane configured for heavy turbulence?

So you're left with this article that goes over some cool new facts (for those of you outside the aviation community) but really doesn't shed much light on the incident at all. It's not a news piece, it's not an opinion piece. It's kind of a science piece hanging off a news story -- one that puts the author in the role of expert without facts and one in which hundreds of people get killed.

Not my cup of tea.