Chinese space station set to crash-land on Earth's surface within months

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/tiangong-1-chinese-space-station-to-crash-land-on-earth-within-month ^ | Sam Meredith

[plain talk]

the country's first orbiting space station had to be scrapped after its functions failed following two years in space.

Stopped working after a few years ... yeah like their washing machines and dryers.

[BenLurkin]

And hopefully their planes, tanks, and ships.

[WKUHilltopper]

Well, like most anything manufactured in China...that didn’t last long.

[lacrew]

"The probability of impact is distributed evenly over the surface"

Not true. It will most likely impact along its orbital path, because it doesn't just randomly flit around the globe:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=37820

Unlikely? Yes. "Highly unlikely"...Bagdad Bob stuff.

[NorthMountain]

OK ... fair point. So I looked at the orbital path you kindly linked. The current orbit (right now, a few hours from now could be different) is almost entirely over water. Other orbits will take it over the US east coast and other populated areas. Still, most orbits will be over water or sparsely populated areas. I’ll stick with “highly unlikely”; that’s not by any means Baghdad Bob territory.