There was a public accusation that a competitor shot one of their rockets with a rifle, causing it to fail. If they had reasonable suspicion of that, they should have kept it to themselves and the FBI/law enforcement. What really happened is that a strut failed due to faulty batch of material that wasn't tested before fabrication.
I'm not sure if this was deliberate spin, but it seemed pretty shady to me at the time.
I'm not sure if this was deliberate spin, but it seemed pretty shady to me at the time.