SpaceX says a fire might have caused its Starship to break during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean. SpaceX's Elon Musk said preliminary indications are that leaking fuel built up pressure in the cavity above the engine firewall. The resulting fire would have doomed the spacecraft.

People in Turks and Caicos saw a nearly unbelievable sight in the sky as debris from an exploded SpaceX test flight rained down.