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Jay Barbree onj NBC is reporting that some of the sensors went out just before the loss of contact. The shuttle's festooned with the things, so knowing what sensors went first might be very helpful in determining what happened if not why it happened.

WFAA showing normal Shuttle entry from file, compared to this one. Very different. Just to show how fast it was going. It went over DFW at 8am, scheduled to land in S. Florida at 8:16am.

That would be good. That and the debris field maps should give a strong story.

Jay Barbree onj NBC is reporting that some of the sensors went out just before the loss of contact. The shuttle's festooned with the things, so knowing what sensors went first might be very helpful in determining what happened if not why it happened.

Ok, I am not a scientist (nor do I play one on television), but I have a question for those who are and may have more knowledge than me.

Did anyone see the video of the shuttle close up before it came apart? When I saw it, I thought "wait a minute, am I supposed to be seeing the stern of this craft?" After the close up, the camera zoomed out and then.... Now, We all pretty much know that the shuttle puts it's nose in the air and uses it's bottom to slow down. We have also learned that while the nose is up, the pilot does banking maneuvers to bleed off speed.

The NASA officials said that they got "off the scale low" readings from several sensors and they said that to observers those readings would look as if "the wires were cut." While I am not a scientist, I am an electronics tech and to me those indications say the wires were disconnected by some means. In this case I'm thinking burnt through.

In the particular video shot I am referring to, we should have seen either the top or the bottom of the shuttle and not the rear.

If they were making banking maneuvers and wiring harnesses were burnt through enough to make the elevators on the left side fail, wouldn't the air pressure and speed cause the shuttle to yaw enough so they were coming down sideways and wouldn't that cause enough strain on the airframe to cause it to come apart?

What say all of you?