Explosion at the airport of California: there are victims

Filed under:USA — posted by webmaster on July 27, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

In the result of strong explosion at the airport at aerospace research center Mojave Air and Space Port in the Californian Mohave desert 2 people were killed and four people have received serious wounds. Incident has occurred in one of the remote constructions in territory of airfield.
It is still unknown, what actually became the reason of explosion, however, as it has been informed, that nitrous oxide also known as “amusing gas” could be used on the place of the incident.
Company Scaled Composites, to which the premise belongs, uses nitrous oxide as an oxidizer in the rocket engines. It is worth of mentioning that oxidizers are intended for increase of efficiency of burning and are extremely explosive.
According to the mass-media messages, now there are scale destructions on the ground. On shootings from the helicopter which the American telechannels show, fragments of the equipment and the vehicles, scattered on a take-off platform are also visible. Now best physicians, experts on dangerous chemicals and explosion-dangerous components are carrying out research works at the place of incident. Authorities are afraid, that at explosion harmful substances could get into the air.
Two years ago Scaled Composites has constructed first private spacecraft SpaceShipOne. Now the company is engaged in development of a passenger spacecraft, which can be maintained in commercial objectives.

 
 

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