The launch pad wasn't supposed to disintegrate and shower the surrounding area with large quantities of all sizes of concrete debris. It's pretty reasonable fo

The launch pad wasn't supposed to disintegrate and shower the surrounding area with large quantities of all sizes of concrete debris. It's pretty reasonable for them to get push-back for their inadequate engineering when it causes unanticipated negative side-effects. Now they'll have to re-design their launch pad, but they were going to have to do that anyways. (Article says they planned to use a water-cooled steel plate under the launch pad but it wasn't ready in time. Maybe that's enough, or maybe they'll have to install a proper flame trench and water deluge system which they were trying to avoid for some reason.)