Stay updated with breaking news from Glided down. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
right. so think of it. if you re a commercial pilot or a private pilot and you fly outside of the your faa air space, you get in trouble. that is what is happening to virgin galactic. this starts as spaceship two was climbing up to the edge of space and warning lights and the pilots were faced with a split-second decision, abort the mission which would have mentd that your founder richard branson in the passenger seat would not become the first billionaire to make it to the edge of space, jeff bezos would have beat him or due try to take over controls and change the trajectory and that is what the two pilots ultimately decided to do. it meant that they went outside of the faa designated air space for about a 1:40 as it glided down. but in the end, nobody was hurt. according to virgin galactic, nobody on the ground could have been hurt and no other aircraft could have been hurt. they say that they re going to comply with this faa ....
would have been a better place to hit or a worst place to hit. there s so many apartment complexes around here. can you describe more that area of where the plane crashed? yeah. it s we are maybe a half a mile from virginia beach ocean front. big resort area. lots of homes, lots of apartment complexes. and it s it s just a place that, you know, anywhere but here kind of thing. again, if it was a half a mile to the west, it could have been in a creek or a marshy area. and he would have had to have probably crossed at least one marshy area to get to this point. how did you know that this was unusual or different? you say that you have got low-flying airplaplanes in this all the time. how did you know this was something that was unusual and dangerous? well, i ll tell you, again, the way it was coming in, it almost came in like it was trying to land with the nose facing up and there was nowhere for it to touch down. there was no flat ground in the direction he w ....