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Comment by mrcwinn

10 hours ago

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

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.

6.

  • 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

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.