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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12)	2/1/2003 11:35:39 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 627

I don't either, but with an Israeli citizen on board, FOX said there were suggestions someone might have wanted to get him.. It makes me want to get Bin just for the fear he has put in our country.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12)	2/1/2003 3:02:28 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 627

I do not believe anyone could have gotten close enough to plant any kind of devise. I don't completely discount it, because security, while tight, is NEVER so tight that it would prevent an insider from planting a device that could be triggered. It would have had to be someone who had access to a location where they could stash something with the ability to explode upon re-entry without a remote trigger detonation. Remember.. it was in communications black-out, which means no signals could reach either from it, or to it... But I still believe we have a catastrophic failure here.. There are reports about a tire pressure warning in the transcript of the final communication with Columbia. I also mentions around noon that from what I could see, it appeared the shuttle was coming in almost sideways just before it burst into flame. This was viewable from the close-up footage that was being made available.. One could see the three engines at the rear, which should have been impossible.. Message 18522855 Hawk