Kern County Sheriff's Office investigating SpaceShipTwo crash • KCSO asks public to report any aircraft debris findings

MOJAVE, Calif. - The Kern County Sheriff's Office has released information on the SpaceShipTwo in-flight anomaly that happened on Friday, October 31.  

Wreckage from the aircraft was initially found over a several mile span near the intersection of Redrock Randsburg Road and Catlin Road, northeast of Mojave and southwest of Ridgecrest, according to KCSO spokesman Ray Pruitt.

Pruitt said additional pieces of aircraft have been found, some as far as 35 miles away from the area where the majority of the aircraft was located. The coroner report for co-pilot Michael Alsbury said the cause of death was blunt force trauma and the manner of death was an accident.

The Kern County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help in the investigation. They would like any person who locates additional pieces of aircraft, or any other items which may be related to the aircraft, to leave the materials untouched and immediately notify the Sheriff's Office at (661) 861-3110.
 
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Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo, N339SS, Scaled Composites: Accident occurred October 31, 2014 in Mojave, California  

 http://registry.faa.gov/N339SS 

AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENTAL SCALED COMPOSITES 339 CRASHED ONTO THE KOEHN DRY LAKE BED SHORLY AFTER SEPARATION FROM MOTHERSHIP WHITEKNIGHT 2 N348MS, THERE WERE TWO PERSONS ON BOARD, 1 WAS FATALLY INJURED 1 SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES, MOJAVE, CA 
 
FAA  Flight Standards District Office: FAA Van Nuys FSDO-01