My first reaction when I heard about this was that it was yet another terrorist action. Muslim? Well, the co-pilot's name would suggest not, but who knows?
If the man wanted to commit suicide, surely there would have been another option that didn't kill all his passengers. Perhaps he was mentally unstable.
Whatever the outcome, I think they will eventually find the real cause.
One thing, though. Whenever I turned on the BBC TV News, there they were: Frogs, Germans and whoever else spouting off and repeating the same things over and over. It appears that, on this particular day, there was no other news.
I did notice, however, that periodically the BBC returned to their favourite topic: football.