This has to be one of the most intensely emotional videos I've seen in a long while. Taken from three different angles by a hobbyist group, the rocket explodes 29 seconds after lift-off when it falls back to earth. I apologize in advance if anyone is offended by the death (not directly recorded) that occured as a result of the explosion, but I felt there was ample merit for the submission.

From wikipedia:

A long string of successful Soyuz launches was broken on October 15, 2002 when the unmanned Soyuz U launch of the Photon-M satellite from Plesetsk fell back near the launch pad and exploded 29 seconds after lift-off. One person was killed and eight injured.

From Youtube:

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Foton M-1 satellite has a total failure during launch and collides into the Earth with a large explosion. Caught on camera by multiple people from different angles by a hobby or fan group (ESA Team). One person was killed and 8 were injured, they were workers for the project and are not seen on camera.

had to look up this story to familiarize myself with what that rocket was all about: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/soyuz_fails_021015.html

rather scary for the people involved

Lol the people on the ground r so dence "what happend" lol i meen its pritty obvouse that the rocket blew up. id be exsited. its a real shame sumone died and people got hurt but perconaly id been like lafing that i was still alive and how cool the exspliosion was

It was hard to tell what was going on in the first part. The other two showed more. It was certainly intense.

I'm no rocket scientist, but it looked like a bad 0-ring to me.

^ I think the vinegar/baking soda ratio was too high.

Tags changed from "rocket, failure, explosion, russia, soyuz, tragic, icarus" to "icarus, failure, explosion, russia" by gold star member James Roe.

*geek

Video added to geek channel (geek called by gold star member Deano)

*promote. pretty wild.

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Monday 4th September 2006 (promotion called by gold star member bamdrew)