SpaceShipTwo - Test Flight 'anomaly'

[a2capt]

http://www.space.com/27617-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-test-flight-anomaly.html

First time in 9 months for the rocket motor, with other test flights being glide, non-rocket powered operations, also with a fuel composition change from a rubber base to a plastic base, on it's first test flight.

..still seems like just yesterday when I got the chance to climb inside SpaceShipOne on the day it did it's first actual test flight. But it's been 10 years.

[Майор Хаткевич]

Reports of one fatality and one injury.

[MacGruff]

The video shows the tail section in pieces on the ground. Not good.

Then there is the red parachute surrounded by yellow tape, and definitely not moving. Not good at all.

[NIN]

The video shows the tail section in pieces on the ground. Not good.

Then there is the red parachute surrounded by yellow tape, and definitely not moving. Not good at all.

The red parachute was not moving because the pilot who hit the silk had already been transported by helicopter to the hospital.  It is an inanimate object.

The other pilot was unable to escape.

[MacGruff]

Yeah....  at the time I saw the video, it was not clear if that was the pilot who survived ... or not...