during richard branson's flight to the edge of space. what happened here? >> reporter: yeah, it looked like a picture perfect flight. you couldn't tell anything from our vantage point. but what we're learning is that virgin galactic's spaceship 2 had a problem during the deskrentsdes descent, that it went out of the designated air space. and if you are caught flying at an altitude of higher or lower than where you are supposed to be, you get into a lot of trouble and that is essentially what happened here. according to the journalist who literally spent years and years inside the company, two warning lights went off in the cockpit during the as ccent of that flit and the pilots were faced with a split second decision.