SpaceX's Ship 36 catastrophically failed while preparing for a static fire test.
(spaceflightnow.com)
Ouch!
Looks like something near the header tank started ripping apart along the downcomer. O2 was nearly full, just a little bit of methane. Since pure oxygen tends to make almost anything burn if there's a flame, that probably burned down quite a lot of stuff around the pieces of Ship 36.
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