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Why would two helium tank mounts be ejected in almost exactly the same way, before any other objects leave the scene? Why just these parts, and why separately from the COPVs they were attached to? Why do we see this odd occurrence, instead of the expected sudden pressure rise, venting, and bulging of the Falcon oxygen tank? Curiously, these observations may all fit very neatly with an explanation of why these two pre-tested COPV helium tanks were damaged, thus causing them to fail. The COPV failures were likely a contribution, but not the cause. The seemingly very peculiar explosion before any visible change or damaging of the rocket, or obvious change in telemetry data, might have a very simple explanation after all. But the root of that simplicity, may lie in a shockingly commonplace danger, which has become widely accepted in the aerospace industry.