During the training session of the calculations of the American battalion of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile complex, which took place at the South Korean test site, an abnormal situation occurred.
Immediately after exiting the ground-to-air missile launcher, it was self-detonating.
The reasons that prompted automatics to issue a command to destroy ammunition are established. The main version of the incident is considered to be an unplanned change in the direction of flight by a rocket.
As a result of the fall to the ground of the wreckage of the victims, both among the civilian population and the military there.