What the records say
- When
- 31 Oct 2014
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 35.31° N, 117.97° W
- Description
- incident involving the VSS Enterprise
- Deaths
- 1
- Injured
- 1
VSS Enterprise crash
2014 spacecraft accident in California
The VSS Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California. Co-pilot Michael Alsbury was killed and pilot Peter Siebold was seriously injured.
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