The media outlet said an investigation was launched after the Central Military Commission determined that “the accident was directly caused by serious problems in the fire control design of the Yu-3C improved torpedo.” “However, not long after the mission began, a torpedo exploded in the launch tube,” it said, causing the crash that killed “all the people on board.” 19 to 27 to conduct “underwater weapons tests" near Dalian Port in the Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoning province, UP Media said. Two days after the Daily Mail’s report, a Chinese-language media outlet based in Taiwan – UP Media – quoted anonymous sources in Beijing as saying that the real cause of the accident was “serious problems” of the Yu-3C torpedoes on the submarine. “Six hours is not enough to result in hypoxia without something else consuming the oxygen first, like a fire or explosion,” Shugart told Radio Free Asia. “However, China has had atmosphere control problems on its submarines before, so maybe there is something there but the details are off,” he added. “I’ve never heard of submarine nets being used on the high seas, and I don’t understand why snagging one would cause a failure of atmosphere control equipment,” said Thomas Shugart, a retired submariner and adjunct senior fellow at the think tank Center for a New American Security in Washington D.C. The media reports left submarine experts and military observers perplexed. A new type 094A Jin-class nuclear submarine Long March 10 (not the type mentioned in the article) participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's PLA Navy near Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Xue Yong-Peng – is believed to be among the dead. The 55 crew members who are feared dead included 22 officers, seven officer cadets, nine petty officers and 17 sailors. The British Defence Ministry declined to comment on the reports. It is unclear whether both the Daily Mail and the Times saw the same report, believed to be “held in high classification” but leaked to the media. The on-board oxygen system poisoned the crew after a catastrophic failure.” This resulted in systems failures that took six hours to repair and surface the vessel. “The submarine hit a chain and anchor obstacle used by the Chinese navy to trap US and allied submarines. “Our understanding is death caused by hypoxia (lack of oxygen) due to a system fault on the submarine,” both papers quoted the leaked report as saying. The Times picked the story up a day later, saying that the Chinese vessel “was said to have run out of oxygen near Shandong province, north of Shanghai.” “According to a secret UK report the seamen died following a catastrophic failure of the submarine's oxygen systems which poisoned the crew,” the Mail said. China currently has six of them in its submarine force. It has a submerged displacement of more than 6,000 tons, and can accommodate a crew of 100. The Shang-class submarine is typically 107-meters long, 11-meters wide, and 7.5-meters high. '093-417' indicates a Chinese Navy Type 093, or Shang-class, nuclear-powered attack submarine with hull number 417. The incident is understood to have happened on Aug. The tabloid Daily Mail reported last Tuesday that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy submarine '093-417' “apparently got caught in a trap intended to ensnare British sub-surface vessels in the Yellow Sea.” Submarine experts and observers are casting doubt on reports by British media, citing leaked intelligence, that a Chinese nuclear submarine had an accident in late August, resulting in the deaths of 55 sailors.
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