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This week in Airplane News, Dassault Mirage crashes in Las Vegas, supersonic startup Aerion closes down, commercial flight diverted in Belarus due to bomb threat, successful VSS Unity flight.

0:00 Introduction
0:47 Mirage Crash
1:43 Aerion Shutdown
2:47 Belarus Diversion
3:33 VSS Unity

Mirage was owned, operated, and piloted by Draken US, a Florida-based company contracted to provide adversary air support to Nellis Air Force Base. The crash cause under investigation and the pilot did not survive.

Aerion shutdown despite 10 billion in pre-orders.
Shut down due to inability to find capital for building the aircraft.
“The AS2 supersonic business jet program meets all market, technical, regulatory and sustainability requirements, and the market for a new supersonic segment of general aviation has been validated with $11.2 billion in sales backlog for the AS2, However, in the current financial environment, it has proven hugely challenging to close on the scheduled and necessary large new capital requirements to finalize the transition of the AS2 into production. Given these conditions, the Aerion Corporation is now taking the appropriate steps in consideration of this ongoing financial environment."

A commercial flight was diverted to Belarus after a phony bomb threat
Ryanair was notified of a “potential security threat” by Belarus but “nothing untoward was found” before the plane was cleared to take flight again
Multiple passengers arrested/detained during the diversion.

VSS Unity flown by pilot-in-command CJ Sturkow and Dave MacKay
altitude of 55.45 miles. Virgin Galactic hopes to eventually carry paying passengers (about $200,000 each) to the edge of space