Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Virgin Galactic pilot actions studied in spaceship crash

A piece of debris is seen near the scene of the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Friday. The passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other.Spaceship crash

Investigators are trying to solve several cases about the recent crash of a Virgin Galactic spacecraft during a test flight, including how the pilot managed to escape and survive the crash that killed his co-pilot. Investigators are trying to determine how surviving pilot Pete Sideboard, 43, managed to get out of the rocket plane and parachute to the ground from a height of roughly 15,000 meters in altitude virtually devoid of oxygen. Hart said Sideboard, now hospitalized with a shoulder injury, did not exit through the cockpit's escape hatch.



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