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Metal fatigue?
Jacob Samorodin — (archived)

I would think NASA's engineers
would have been on-top of this potential
problem for years.
My guess is that it was insulation-foam hitting the thermal-tiles at 500mph.
Even a feather, in 250mph tornado winds, could kill or damage.

Jacob

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