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NTSB staff talk with Virgin Galactic pilot Todd Ericson. NTSB chairman Christopher Hart said that, as the Board had learned "with a high degree of certainty the events that resulted in the breakup", he hoped the investigation would prevent such an accident from happening again.
Virgin Galactic's Third Powered Flight - 14 Jan 2014 Official video on Virgin Galactic YouTube channel; Virgin Galactic, National Geographic Channel, documentary of the conception, design, build and early flights of VSS Enterprise, 2012. NTSB B-Roll of the SpaceShipTwo Crash Scene in Mojave, Calif. - 1 Nov 2014 Official video on NTSB YouTube ...
Sep. 16—A Muskogee man who was piloting a plane that crashed and killed him and his three passengers was at fault in the crash, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
On October 31, 2014, Alsbury was test flying the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, VSS Enterprise with Peter Siebold. The craft broke up in-flight, resulting in a total loss of VSS Enterprise, which crashed in the California Mojave Desert. Alsbury was unable to exit the spacecraft, and his remains were found still strapped to his seat in the fuselage.
In a revision last week to a 2021 report on the incident, the NTSB said it had determined there was insufficient evidence to conclude the winglets — raised pieces on the end of plane wings that ...
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed Friday morning in the Mojave Desert, KGET. By RYAN GORMAN One pilot is dead and another injured after the second commercial spaceship crash this week, which ...
Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two. Virgin Galactic's maiden spaceflight occurred in 2018 with its VSS Unity spaceship. [3] Branson had originally hoped to see a maiden spaceflight by 2010, [4] but the date was delayed, primarily due to the October 2014 crash of VSS ...
The NTSB report says that pilot Daniel T. Baker, 44, of Jackson, was a non-instrument-rated pilot, meaning he lacked the training to fly using only the plane’s instrument panel during certain ...