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On Mon, 11/3/14, Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] 'Rocket Science' gets even 'harder'!
 To: "tml@simplelists.com" <tml@simplelists.com>
 Date: Monday, November 3, 2014, 11:16 AM

 On Nov
 3, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com>
 wrote:

 > The NTSB's
 preliminary
 > investigation is pointing
 at the feathering
 > system being
 activated early and that it was
 > pilot
 error.
 >
 > http://www.voanews.com/content/ntsb-descent-system-of-crashed-virgin-spacecraft-activated-early/2505720.html
 >
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 > Anyone have any info
 as to how that would cause an explosion?

 It appears that the aircraft didn't
 explode, actually since the propellant tanks and rocket
 motors were found to be intact. The airframe broke apart,
 either as a result of the feathering system being activated
 or as a precipitating even for the activation.

 Ars Technica has an article
 with some photos of the event <http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/11/ntsb-spaceshiptwo-broke-apart-when-feathering-activated-early/>

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After looking at the photos it *does* appear that there is a 'flash' of some sort seen in the 3rd photo.

Could that have been from the ejection system?

Or was it something else?

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