Virgin Galactic pilot 'thrown free' from spacecraft
Some wreckage items were taken back to NTSB
labs
The pilot who survived the Virgin
Galactic SpaceShipTwo accident was thrown clear as the craft broke up around
him, investigators say.
Peter Siebold was
interviewed about the fatal test flight by a team from the US National
Transportation Safety Board.He parachuted clear as the craft disintegrated over the Mojave desert on 31 October, but co-pilot Michael Alsbury was killed.
Pilot of crashed spaceship was unaware co-pilot unlocked brake
Wreckage lies near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif.
LOS ANGELES - The pilot of the Virgin Galactic spaceship that tore apart over the Mojave Desert didn't know his co-pilot had prematurely unlocked its brakes, though protocol for the test flight required the co-pilot to announce the step, federal investigators said Wednesday.
Pilot Peter Siebold told the National Transportation Safety Board that he was not aware co-pilot Mike Alsbury had pulled a brake-unlocking lever before the rocket designed one day to fly tourists to the edge of space was done accelerating. Seconds later, SpaceShipTwo began to disintegrate over Southern California.
Protocol for the flight was to announce the unlocking, an agency spokesman said.
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