Rockets are hard,” Elon Musk once said but when a 400-foot rocket disintegrates over busy commercial airspace, the consequences go a great deal further than that. The mid-air explosion of SpaceX’s ...
When Qantas Flight 32 left Singapore on November 4, 2010, everything felt routine. It was clear skies, no wind, the "perfect day to go flying," recalled Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny, the ...