Media: for the accident “Proton-M” rocket engine constructor answer – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, May 30 – RIA Novosti. The responsibility for the accident “Proton-M” can be attributed to the designer and director general of Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (KBKhA), which is one of the structures Khrunichev, Vladimir Rachuk. About this newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to a high-ranking source in the Russian Space Agency.

Crash rocket “Proton-M” occurred on the night of May 16 when outputting to orbit the Mexican satellite MexSat-1. Last Friday, the head of the Russian Space Agency, Igor Komarov said that the cause of the accident “Proton-M” is not productive and constructive nature of the problem in the rotor third-stage engine. According to him, in the framework of the commission of inquiry into the accident revealed a number of inconsistencies in the quality management system.

According to the newspaper, the ultimate cause of the accident was determined May 27, when the committee members visited the Voronezh structure Khrunichev – KBKhA and Voronezh Mechanical Plant.

According to a source publication, the responsibility in the first place will be assigned to General Director Vladimir KBKhA Rachuk. According to the newspaper, his contract terminated on April 30, and according to the source, the leadership of the agency is not going to prolong it.

“At the enterprise it is necessary to change much, but it will be entrusted to another person”, – quotes the edition of the interlocutor .

The official representative Alexander KBKhA Kazhikin told the newspaper that he did not know about leaving Rachuk resign. According to him, the head of KBKhA Friday was in Moscow.