[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Some people may find shuttle parts for years to come. Forests, meadows, vacant lots, and pig troughs in several states may contain millions of parts. It's not like everything fell in a small area.

[twyn1]

We were stationed in Germany when a C-5 (HUGE airplane) crashed just outside the base -- a few months later, the kids and I were biking along a trail near the crash site and we found some debris from the crash, mostly little bits and pieces, but also an intact indicator dial, we picked it up and turned it in to the base, but still, it was a little "tempting" to keep something -- human nature is hard to understand at times

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. I said the same thing to my wife. Pieces fell where no human eye saw them and will be found for years and decades to come.