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The PEPCON plant, located in Henderson, Nevada, 10 miles (16 km) from Las Vegas, was one of only two American producers of ammonium perchlorate ("AP"), an oxidizer used in solid propellant rockets, including the Space Shuttle boosters, Trident SLBMs, and other rockets such as the Patriot. [3]
The show depicts the United Airlines Flight 232 crash, USS Forrestal fire, the Killdozer, the Mount Hood hiking incident, the deadly Ramstein airshow disaster, and the PEPCON disaster. The toolbox of resources which the show employs to perform this task include the following items: Video footage; Photographs
Bruce Halker and Roy Westerfield lost their lives in the PEPCON disaster, an explosion of a factory that produced ammonium perchlorate for solid-fuel rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle and other launchers. 27 July 1989: Kennedy Space Center, US 1 Space Shuttle
The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant. The fire and subsequent explosions claimed two lives, injured 372 people, and caused an estimated US$100 million of damage.
Estimates of the death toll range from 3700 to 16,000. The disaster caused the region's human and animal populations severe health problems to the present. June 25, 1985: The Aerlex Fireworks plant explosion in Hallett, Oklahoma killed 21 people after a chain-reaction occurred. May 4, 1988: PEPCON disaster, Henderson, Nevada. A massive fire and ...
Authorities are searching for two men who allegedly broke into a locked U.S. Forest Service fire engine and stole equipment from crews who were stationed in the Inland Empire last week.
However, on Discovery Channel's "Blueprint for Disaster: Destruction in the Desert", an episode on the PEPCON disaster, two former employee's state that the two vitims were the man who called the fire department and another man who was watching the fire and ignored their requests for him to leave, with no mention of him being in a wheelchair.
The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson on May 4, 1988, at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant. The fire and subsequent explosions killed 2 and injured 372 people and caused an estimated US$100 million of damage.