That rocket appears to have crashed into an open plain. It was a village?

1996

The village is pretty much gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTFgZ9zl74

	▲	wongarsu 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wow, that certainly gives context to why modern range safety is so strict about automatically or manually blowing the rocket up once it deviates too far from the planned path

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866-RON-0-FEZ 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm referring to a different Chinese launch failure in 1996.

There is some VHS footage on YouTube surreptitiously shot by Americans on-site supporting the payload which became a guerrilla documentary.

The village was annihilated but the official number from the CCP was 6 dead.

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audunw 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not the only time the CCP has reported an unbelievably low number of casualties in a large catastrophe. Seems like the number of dead is always around 6-7 (sorry) no matter how big the incident is. Like the flooding of that tunnel a few years ago where the authorities tried to hide how many flowers were put up by the tunnel

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ceejayoz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Or on a larger scale, their publicly disclosed COVID deaths.

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_kb 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean like this https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef5697, or this https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8354557/.

	▲	ceejayoz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but at a significantly higher level of magnitude. Their official count is 122,398; the US reported 1,238,123. Both are undercounts, but China's is probably much more of an undercount.

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arjie 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not this one. An old one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

The Chinese government say very few were killed. But personally, my position is that the guys who routinely publish their embarrassing-seeming failures are quite believable (the US publishes that their planes fall off their carriers) and those who say they're perfect are probably lying. So I don't believe their numbers.