Drop the blocks of the carrier rocket “the Union” led to the fire in the steppe of Kazakhstan near the town of Zhezkazgan, which killed the driver of the truck — this was announced by Roskosmos on the morning of 15 June.
The employee of NPO Mashinostroyenia, carrying out work on the collection of separable parts of the carrier rocket, was driving by the crash site of the rocket-carrier on the KAMAZ. In the desert the wind picked up, and the truck literally covered in flames. The fire has been eliminated, but the driver died from the received traumas it has died on the spot. Another colleague received severe burns and is now in hospital.
Firefighting service to monitor the district, as he was the intended place of fall of the building blocks of missiles. Fixed the fire and began to extinguish even the night before, but fully able to pay only three o’clock in the morning, the fire quickly spread through the dry grass and caused the accident.
The Committee of emergency situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan noted that the fell of the booster do not contain toxic substances and pose no risk to local residents, flora and fauna.
The fire from the fallen blocks of the rocket “Soyuz” a man died
Vyacheslav Larionov