I don’t want to harsh everyone’s speculative righteous indignation, but the article clearly states, “Details of the flight are scant at the moment but there were severe thunderstorms in the area at the time.”
Florida pilots know that if your wx brief doesn’t say “thunderstorms in the area”, you entered the wrong airport identifier. During certain times of the year, “severe” is much preferred to “widespread”. At this point we have NOTHING that implicates that a TSTM encounter had anything to do with the accident. The guy survived an inflight failure; good for him. What say we all stop screeching and flinging our poop until we know more about what really happened?