Explore the tragic and fascinating story of Major Mike Adams and the final fatal flight of the North American X-15 rocket plane! Welcome to What Happened to the X-15 Pilot Whose Rocket Plane Spun Out at Mach 5. In this 15-minute documentary from Airframe Witness, we dive deep into the historic November 15, 1967 mission where the X-15 reached 266,000 feet into space before spinning out of control at Mach 5. From the complex MH96 adaptive flight control system and instrument panel ambiguity to the electrical arcing root cause and posthumous astronaut wings awarded to Major Adams, discover the true story behind the X-15 program’s only fatal accident!
