Production Defect On Crashed Soyuz-FG Rocket Was Likely Accidental - Roscosmos Chief

Daniyal Sohail Published November 19, 2018 | 11:10 PM

A production defect on the crashed Soyuz-FG rocket was likely accidental, Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation head Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday, adding that Russian law enforcement bodies were looking for those responsible for the fault.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th November, 2018) A production defect on the crashed Soyuz-FG rocket was likely accidental, Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation head Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday, adding that Russian law enforcement bodies were looking for those responsible for the fault.

"[Those responsible] will be determined by the bodies that are in charge of that ...

[The production defect] was likely accidental," Rogozin said at a press conference held at the Rossiya Segodnya Information Agency media center in Moscow.

On October 11, a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague malfunctioned about two minutes after the liftoff, sending their escape capsule into a steep fall back to Earth. The crew members were not harmed.