Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company ignored repeated safety warnings before Friday’s fatal explosion, it was claimed last night.
One leading rocket expert said the entrepreneur’s ambitious space project had been playing ‘Russian roulette’ with the pilots’ lives because one of the test flights was sure to end in disaster.
The company’s chief executive, George Whitesides, denied claims that one of the project’s own engineers had warned as recently as Thursday that the spacecraft was too dangerous to fly – but had been overruled by an executive who said the deadline was too pressing.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) stand beside the debris of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in the Mojave Desert after it exploded and crashed during a test flight over California
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