Umm yes, quite. I guess it wasn't clear in my comments, but yes, I'd assumed the crash was caused by further damage to the already damaged control surfaces by the heat of re-entry. And that the loss of Telemetry was caused by the re-entry ionization (though the attenae getting cooked off is just a more detailed explaination of that, really) not the two aircraft failing catastropicly. Rather, that it was, as it is now, the cross your fingers and hope moment of re-entry for the crowd on the ground (okay, there's the LOS from Ionization, now all we can do is wait and pray for her to come out the other side)