"Why would the left wing overheat if the tiles were intact?"
Look, I don't pretend to be a rocket scientist, nor to I "speculate" like some of "mankind" seems to do before I have more facts. I do try to weed out some of the Barbra Streisand that I see and hear. There are many who seem to want to talk about seeing "tiles falling" and "events happenning" over California and Las Vegas etc. I'm watching ALL that, very curiously....
I don't think that it's much of a stretch to look at NASA's evidence that the left wing was overheating and had more drag than the right wing to speculate that there were damaged tiles.
Like Mr. Dittemore?
"In addition, Dittemore said images taken by an observer in California that appears to show an early trail of debris behind the shuttle will be examined and compared with the actual telemetry. "We're going to overlay his report with what the data shows to us and hopefully the two of them will help us piece together a path that might help lead us to the cause,"