NTSB wraps up on-scene portion of Virgin Galactic crash investigation
The pilot who survived the crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Oct. 31, 2014, in Mojave, California was unaware that the feather braking system had been unlocked early by the copilot.
That piece of information – obtained during an interview with the pilot last Friday – may help National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators determine the cause of the accident, which killed the copilot during a test flight conducted by Scaled Composites.