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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The359: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb]What did go wrong? Apart from the possibility of heat tiles failing, the Columbia carried a potentially explosive EDO package, and was at the stage of return where RCS systems would be firing in rather extreme conditions. Plus the guidance software was in something of a flux, between upgrades - perhaps attitude control was lost due to a software glitch?[/qb][/QUOTE]My guess is merely that damaged tiles allowed the wing to heat up too much, and be ripped off. At Mach 18, losing a wing would just twist Columbia apart from the G-force and it just, literally, disintigrated. Crew most likely dead before they knew anything was wrong. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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