To me the only thing that explains the little we know is that the hull failed first, the poor schmoes probably had a few seconds to minutes notice as it would likely make some noise as it started to fail but it wouldn't bugger up the radio earlier, the catastrophic failure is the thing that does that, my guess is it collapsed in a few seconds and the stuff hanging off the outside just fell off more or less complete as a result rather than was jettisoned on purpose
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