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Board Ready to Put Clues Together on Cause of Shuttle Disaster.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003

By Robyn Suriano, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 23--HOUSTON -- The board investigating the shuttle Columbia disaster is ready to shift from gathering information and begin putting the clues together to explain what caused the Feb. 1 accident, its chairman said Tuesday.

Board members said they have enough evidence from debris, data beamed down from the ship, video footage and other sources to begin creating a "story" that describes how hot gases got inside Columbia's left wing during re-entry.

"I think 11 weeks into this, it's time that we attempted to see where the evidence is pointing us," said Harold Gehman Jr., chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, during a weekly news...

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