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From: fisher@star.DEC (Burns Fisher ZKO1-1/D42 DTN 381-1466)
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Subject: re: Significant finding by committee not in news?
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 18:29:50 EST
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ukma!sean writes:
 
...
>NASA's data, according to the NASA spokesman, points to a failure of the
>right SRB's lower attachment point.  Whether the plume of flame was the
>cause of it was not discussed while I was listening.  According to various
... 
>I'm surprised that since it was broadcast, last Friday, I haven't read one
>word about this theory in the papers.  Was it later dropped for some reason?
>Or was I the only one listening?

The reason that this was not big news is because it isn't.  That theory
was first put out in the second Aviation Week after the accident.  It
has not been given a lot of press play, I'll admit.  It is much easier
for reporters to understand "the flame caused a chain reaction which led
to the explosion" than "the flame severed the aft attach point which allowed
the SRB ..."

Burns 
 
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