Yup. Mach [lots], 40 miles up, no way it was a missile.
Sabotage strikes me as unlikely, too - from what I know, they check just about everything - the chances of anyone getting anything on board that shouldn't be there are as close to nil as makes no odds.
Apparently there was some kind of incident on take-off, where something came off the external tank and hit the port wing, but they reckoned everything was OK.
I agree, most likely it was some kind of technical failure - at that speed, if anything structural gives way (even something tiny), aerodynamics will finish it off in no time. :(
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Date: 2003-02-01 07:41 (UTC)Sabotage strikes me as unlikely, too - from what I know, they check just about everything - the chances of anyone getting anything on board that shouldn't be there are as close to nil as makes no odds.
Apparently there was some kind of incident on take-off, where something came off the external tank and hit the port wing, but they reckoned everything was OK.
I agree, most likely it was some kind of technical failure - at that speed, if anything structural gives way (even something tiny), aerodynamics will finish it off in no time. :(