Space Shuttle Columbia compared with Flight 77.doc

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated “during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on 1 February 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia ) Even though it was travelling at 7,500 km/h crash investigators managed to find 40 percent of the craft, a total of about 84,000 pieces. “As a result, NASA carefully catalogued the nearly 84,000 pieces of Columbia recovered, and after the investigation, stored them in a converted room located on the 16th floor of the same Vehicle Assembly Building that once readied Columbia for launch.” (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-013111a.html ) “Along with pieces of the shuttle and bits of equipment, searchers also found human body parts, including arms, feet, a torso, a skull, and a heart.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster#Recovery_of_debris) "We know exactly where each piece of Columbia is," said shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach. "We could probably retrieve any piece of Columbia we wanted to in a couple of hours." (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-013111a.html)

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated “during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on 1 February 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia)

Even though it was travelling at 7,500 km/h crash investigators managed to find 40 percent of the craft, a total of about 84,000 pieces. “As a result, NASA carefully catalogued the nearly 84,000 pieces of Columbia recovered, and after the investigation, stored them in a converted room located on the 16th floor of the same Vehicle Assembly Building that once readied Columbia for launch.” (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-013111a.html)

“Along with pieces of the shuttle and bits of equipment, searchers also found human body parts, including arms, feet, a torso, a skull, and a heart.”

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster#Recovery_of_debris)

"We know exactly where each piece of Columbia is," said shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach. "We could probably retrieve any piece of Columbia we wanted to in a

couple of hours."

(http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-013111a.html)

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On September 11, 2001, the media reported that United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, had crashed into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, carrying 7 crew members and 33 passengers, and supposedly also carrying 4 hijackers.

The plane was only travelling at 800 km/h.

No plane wreckage could be found!

No passenger body parts were found and no luggage.

Here’s what a real plane crash site looks like –

MH17 crash site, Ukraine, 17 July 2014

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