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Edge of space. and the way it works, spaceship 2 took off attached to a mother ship called eve at the right altitude. it detached. the pilots fired the rocket engine. it flew nearly vertical up to the edge of space. the astronauts got a few minutes of weightlessness before the plane glided back down, landing back on the same runway it took off from at space port america. so now the idea is, after two more test flights, virgin galactic will finally begin making good on its promise to send paying customers up on these suborbital space flights. if that's not enough, in just a few days, nine days,...

I guess it hit his face and hit fist face and we were so scared. >> i was holding back of his head to try to keep him calm and wait for people to show up. >> tire hit him and down there. blood right here. but we tried to fet all the blood off. >> reporter: doctors had to shave the boy's head for surgery. in a sign of friendship his friends shaved theirs as well. pilot was not injured. salvage crew retrieved the plane later. an investigation is underway. the boy will be okay. amazing, patti ann, crowded as beach was more people that weren't injured. the plane glided in complete silence which pe...

That would be consistent with a slow descent down into that region. >> the specter of the miracle of the hudson where the plane glided on water and passengers walked away from the crash had given hope to some families perhaps another miracle would be revealed here but at the crisis center as time passes praying has given way to despair. this family told cnn's gary tuchman they lost seven loved ones on the doomed flight. >> translator: when we heard the information firstly, of course we hoped our family members were safe and thought of nothing until yesterday morning and afternoon we still hope...

And clues floating on top of the water may or may not tell you about the cause of the accident when you move to the second layer which is the water column beneath them and you start reverse engineering their position against the competing currents below, you can get an estimate on where they came from and that can lead you to the third layer down here which is the heavy bits on the bottom because those are the ones you really have to get. what are we talking about? we're talking about big parts of the plane. parts of the wings and parts of the tail and parts of the landing gear and the electro...

Early to even speculate? >> it's really too early to speculate. it's not very fruitful to speculate. really what they're doing as you reported earlier, they're really bent on getting these black boxes out of the water. the destruction of the fuselage itself that will unlock the secrets pretty quickly. i suspect this case will not take too long to resolve, absolutely not mh370 and then the answers will emerge pretty quickly. we could, as sort of a mental exercise talk about the possibilities related to weather and perhaps pilot errors et cetera, but it will not really be useful because we'll ha...