I was at the cape watching that very sobering sight that morning..
There was so much debris flying though the air when it exploed there
would be no way something could have flown anywhere close to the area
and not hit some trash. If I rememeber correctly NASA would not even
launch helicopters to the area for over an hour cause stuff was still
falling out of the sky and that crap would have taken down a rescue
vehicles. That was a sad day in space flight for sure...

Ben
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