Part of the military contingent and testers instinctively tried to flee from the danger zone, people ran to the side of the other pad, toward the bunker…but on this route was a strip of new-laid tar, which immediately melted. Brezhnev’s final report concluded that:“The direct cause of the accident was the shortcomings in the design of the control system, which allowed unscheduled operation of the of the EPK V-08 valve controlling the ignition of the main engine of the second stage during pre-launch processing. The fire on the vehicle LD1-3T could’ve been avoided if the reconfiguration of the current distributor into a zero position was conducted before the activation of the onboard power supply.”
Author: Gilles Messier
Published at: 2026-01-17 22:35:10
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