![]() “I heard the piece coming down through the air. “We certainly want to discourage that.”ĭebris found in San Augustine County about 140 miles north-east of Houston included a charred astronaut’s patch and a flight helmet.ĭebris also fell in western Louisiana, including a smouldering bundle of wires in a Shreveport front yard and pieces that reportedly dropped into Toledo Bend Reservoir on the Texas border, threatening water supplies. “We’ve had people bring pieces of it up here to the office,” he said. ![]() “There are several little pieces, some parts of machinery.”īehind a bank in Nacogdoches, flowers were laid out – including seven pink roses – in a makeshift memorial as residents gathered around a taped-off area that contained a 3 sq ft piece of metal.Įd Rohner, Nacogdoches airport manager, said some type of tank ended up on a runway, and debris was scattered along the airport entrance road.Ĭherokee County Sheriff James Campbell said debris was reported to have fallen around the towns of Jacksonville, Palestine, Rusk and Athens in east Texas. “It’s all over,” said James Milford, owner of Milford Barber shop in downtown Nacogdoches. Jeff Hancock, a 29-year-old dentist, said a foot-long metal bracket smashed through the roof of his office. “It has heat burns, melted metal and some of the grass burned into it when it fell,” he said. Jim Stutzman of Nacogdoches – 135 miles north-east of Houston – found a 9in long, 2in wide piece of metal in his yard. “Everybody’s treating this like it’s an alien crash,” said Phillip Russell, 17. The Columbia broke apart in flames 200,000ft over Texas, killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida.ĭebris has been tracked in a 500-square-mile area but could be spread over a region three times that, said James Kroll, director of the Emergency Geospacial Mapping Centre at Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches.Īs authorities rushed to secure pieces of the shuttle, residents gathered to get a glimpse. The Army sent in helicopters and soldiers to locate and guard bits of wreckage, which could be pivotal in determining the cause of the disaster. There were no reports of any injuries from the falling debris.Īuthorities urged the public to report any debris but not touch it for fear of contamination from toxic substances. A piece of tile fell within 75 miles of President George W Bush’s ranch in Crawford. A piece of metal rested in a bank car park.ĭebris covered a terrain that ranged from the urban prairie flatlands near Dallas to the hilly pine woods of Louisiana, mostly turning up in tiny blue-collar towns that survive on farming and timber. A steel rod with silver bolts was roped off behind yellow police tape in a yard. ![]() “From the hip to the foot, it’s all there, scorched from the fire,” said their father, Bob White.Īcross the city of Nacogdoches and the surrounding region of pine forest, residents found chunks of debris. On a farm not far away, two young boys found a charred human leg, The Dallas Morning News reported today. ![]()
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