One dead in Virgin spaceship crash

Published November 1, 2014
This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert. — Photo by AP
This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert. — Photo by AP

LOS ANGELES: One pilot was killed and another seriously injured when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed in the desert Friday, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.

The injured pilot was taken to hospital, the spokesman told AFP after the accident that left debris from the commercial edge-of-space craft scattered across the desert near Mojave.

Published in Dawn, November 1st , 2014

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