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Old 04-02-2003, 04:06 PM
BenignVanilla
 
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you do know they were alive when they hit the water and sank, died trapped

in the
debris, right? Ingrid

"Lee Brouillet" wrote:
no more 3 year delays (like they did with Challenger).
I was standing on the roof at work to watch the Challenger launch, and

was
horrified to see it blow up like it did. But those people died doing what
they loved, and that has to be better than a lot of other ways to die.
Lee


Alive...but more then likely unconscious. The cabin was not intact when they
found it, and the commissions that studied the accident and the bodies
concluded that 1 or more of the crew members were alive upon impact, but
there was no evidence that they were conscious. At the altitude and speed at
which the Challenger was traveling a person would have passed out within a
few seconds of decompression. Thankfully...none of them knew they drowned.

BV.