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Shuttle Disaster
Its seems a little odd to me that it takes approximately 6 minutes and the failure or significant changes in about 9 indicators (all on the left wing section) before a warning appears in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Now perhaps there is no need to be warned of every single indicator but you would think that there would be some indication on some screen that something was abnormal. Also, the ground crew should have picked up on this knowing that there was a potential problem on the left wing caused during takeoff. Unfortunately they deemed that a non-issue and probably did not have that in their minds on landing. It does seem odd however that they dismissed this issue without actually having any decent evidence.
I'm not attempting to blame anyone for this disaster but just making some observations for discussion. Knowing all of this information could they not have attempted to do something? Should the ground crew have alerted the shuttle crew to do something? Could anything have been done? Apparently the shuttle makes a bunch of S-turns to bleed speed and for heat management on the wings. Knowing that there was excessive heat on the left wing could they have had the shuttle bear most of its heat on the right? Probably not but worth finding out.
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