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[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Please be aware that the senerio that you have presented for our consumption is at this time premature. Be aware also that you should hold on to what ever information you have obtained (obviously through open sources, correct?) for future reference. At this particular point in time, there exists a multitude of alternate causuality senerios, none of which require what was alluded to in your 1190 post.

Although i do not recal the number, (somewhere in the 800's-900's) i posted a possible alternate senerio...namely that one of the left side landing wheels blew a tire. i have no idea what your technical abilities are, but a tire inflated to the specified pressure of the shuttle is a potential bomb if it goes off in near-vacuum conditions at the temperatures the shuttle was generating at the time. It would be sufficient to do structural damage to the left wing.

Again, while i cannot dismiss your senerio, i believe that it is too premature to speculate until alternate senerios are determined to be unworkable.