In Transbaikalia, "Clinkles heard", the Ministry of Emergencies sends a group to search for "Proton"

Residents of the Petrovsk-Zabaikal district of the Trans-Baikal Territory heard loud pops, which could be associated with the fall of the Proton , Interfax told the district administration. A helicopter of the Ministry of Emergencies is aimed at the scene of a possible fall. Accurate data about whether the wreckage managed to burn in the atmosphere or fell to the ground still not.

The district administration reported that the inhabitants did not see the fall in the wreckage, but they heard three loud cotton.

Earlier, as the alleged area of ​​the fall, the Krasnochikosky district of the region was called. The unified dispatch service reported that residents of the settlements of the Krasnochikosky district did not see the fall of the Proton and did not hear the sounds that it could be accompanied.

The emergency occurred when the Mexican communication satellite was launched at the orbit of about 9 a.m. on Saturday. An abnormal situation occurred during the engine of the third stage. According to preliminary data, an emergency shutdown of the engine occurred at the 498th second of the flight. Proton-M and the Breeze-M Acaponious Block should bring the MexSat-1 spacecraft to a geostationary orbit in the apogee height of about 35 thousand 793 km.