ASTANTA, November 3 (AVN) - Russian-Kazakh commission that investigates the incident with the Proton rocket-carried that happened on 27 October came to a conclusion that Kazakhstan suffered minimal damage, a source in the Russian air-space agency told the Military News Agency.
No cases of people sufferings from the rocket's fallen pieces or air, land and water fuel contamination are registered.
The compensation sum is expected to be much less that after the previous Proton incident (5 July, 1999). That time Russia paid Kazakhstan 270000 U.S. dollars.
Commission found fragments of the four second stage engines and one of them caused the incident. Kazakh authorities agreed to transfer them to Russia for detailed investigation.
Technical commission chaired by the director of the Central scientific and research machine building institute Vladimir Utkin investigates the problem with the engine.
It is supposed the incident was caused by technological manufacturing defect, but the commission is to present the final results of its work on 17 November.