Shuttle Missing (Breaking News)
Mission control have had a total loss of communication with the space shuttle Columbia since 1400 UTC, just before it was due to land at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
CNN are running shots of the shuttle at high altitude over Texas with a contrail and several smaller pieces also contrailing.
Pure speculation but pictures show what appears to be a very high speed, in-flight break up of Columbia. It doesn't look good.
Break-up occured at an altitude of approximately 200,000ft and a speed of over 12,000 mph.
Last edited by Danny; 1st Feb 2003 at 13:44.