[DoughtyOne]

As described on the tube, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and possibly Mexico. Reports have said the shuttle may have been breaking up as early as California. Thirty miles up the debris traveling at 12,500 mph, it would carry quite some distance, if not burn up before it hit the ground. I'd suspect there might be an offside chance Arizona might seem some debree. I may be off base on that.

[mikrofon]

[tomkat]

FNC just said W will speak in about five minutes.
IOW, about 2pm EST

[general_re]

As described on the tube, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and possibly Mexico. Reports have said the shuttle may have been breaking up as early as California.

If so, it must have been minor - one of the nets (MSNBC?) ran the video of ground control during the approach, with NASA's map of the shuttle location. And they were still communicating with the shuttle as it was passing over the Texas panhandle, if I saw the map correctly. At least up until that point, it was intact enough that the crew apparently had no indication of trouble - the last communication about the tire pressure appeared to come just as it was passing over central Texas...

[Arkinsaw]

Reports have said the shuttle may have been breaking up as early as California.

Don't they do the S-Turns out that way? Since commo was lost right after they entered the last leg of the S-Turn that would make sense.