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I honestly think people just don't know. I happen to be a defense brat. My dad was an engineer on fighters currently in the fleet. We lived for a time at one of the flight test centers and around test pilots, and a few future (now, present) astronauts. For anybody who follows space flight, this is no-brainer stuff. Starting with the liquid oxygen used for fuel in launch, there's one major thing that can go wrong after another. There's no logic or physics, that I can tell, being used.

If my past hadn't told me that all these speculations are ridiculous, who knows, I could fall into that trap, too.

That's probably my problem as well! Been around the AF for over 25+ years and have 13 years myself of working for them. I have seen accident reports and know how much effort it takes to pinpoint something.

It is just that the press really gets to me when they have done absolutely no research and yet come on the air.

I would like to believe, however, that I wouldn't ask the same question over and over again and would know that you cannot parachute out from 200,000+feet. Or that computer software can have a glitch that could cause catastrophic problems especially since we just had an example of that on the attacks on the Internet.