Page 29 - Pilot Error News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Unity spaceship coming back. you're right. just because of this unique engineering feature of the spaceship, that, i think, is probably one of those features that you watch closely. i don't want to say it's a vulnerability but you watch closely because it's unique and a pilot error many years ago led to somebody's death. >> and severe injury of the other test pilot. certainly survived. tom, if you want to catch a little bit of a break, put on a hat to get out of the glaing sun, that's cool. we have joan with us and others. i want to go back quickly to you, joan, and ask you the first thought w...

They mention that they have an escape system and that they have done 15 safe flights as opposed to three by virgin galactic. and i have to be quick here with this, but there is a safety issue that comes into play tomorrow, they haven't had that many safe flights. if, god forbid, something goes wrong would that impact and hurt the private space industry? >> this is a very krit kral for virgin galactic. in 2014 they had a tragic accident during a test flight of another vehicle, the enterprise, this one is unity. it has safety enhancement to eliminate the pilot error. virgin galactic did lose one...

And now we're ate a point where we're commercializing those things and it is taking longer than a lot of us have expected or desired but i'm glad to see this component, this space tourism component of commercial space is starting. >> space is hard, as they say, there is a lot of safety challenges to get over. whether a government or private flight. when you look at these based on what you know, are they safe at this point, these kind of trips? >> sure. i think safety is a relative thing. so you want to manage your risk as best as you could. any time you put energy into a vehicle going into spa...

Next couple of days what is the probable cause of this dramatic accident. now yesterday kazakhstan's deputy prime minister told reporter that they were looking at two likely or preliminary causes for this. one would be pilot error and the other is some kind of technical malfunction. that sounds rather broad. he also said that the plane had hit the runway twice on takeoff. so we'll learn more in the coming days. >> nathan hodge, thank you so much. glad to have you here. with the new year comes new resolutions. financial experts advice on how you can get a fatter wallet. and how the rest of yo...

Entrance of the airport and several other city landmarks. officials are investigating the cause of the crash. officials are considering technical failure, pilot error and weather conditions as possible causes. 19 people were on board at the time but dozens survived. leland: and oregon woman went missing, what the charges are he is facing as crews work to find it. can my side be firm?