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Why would they ground the whole fleet, the only bad outcome is economic for the company.
We don't fuck around with rockets. If there's a problem with one, we fix that problem with all of them first. Too much energy and velocities involved to just not care what happened and treat it like a common fender bender. Whatever caused this to happen could also maybe happen in flight and cause an accident.
What's was the velocity when it started to fall over?