The explosion Destroying occurred Presence below the water line , and left a saucer-shaped crater on the seabed deep and across .

This rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act the suggestion Statement of any missile strike Attack , basing Causation its findings Presence on the aircraft 's survival time after the pilot 's initial report to air traffic control of a fire on board , the examination Scrutiny of the wreckage recovered Recovering from the seabed , knowledge Education_teaching of a similar accidental fire in another Sud Aviation Caravelle and the declaration Expressing_publicly by the French defence ministry that there were no surface ships in the area capable of launching Motion missiles .