The government has opened an investigation.

Now we will have years of litigation and lawsuits.

Oh well.

...SpaceX is building up infrastructure for Starship over there. And they have flame trenches and water deluge systems already in place! Musk could save a lot of $$$ by not building those expensive diverters here in Texas.

Five environmental and cultural heritage groups are suing the Federal Aviation Administration, alleging that the agency violated the National Environment Policy Act when it allowed SpaceX to launch the largest rocket ever built from its Boca Chica, Texas facility without a comprehensive environmental review, according to court filings obtained by CNBC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/musk-calls-plans-truthgpt-ai-to-rival-openai-deepmind.html

...and some National Refuge lands, but you know what big money can do in an area that is rather poor and economically depressed.

Musk already thinks he owns the skies.

The FCC gave those bands of the sky to him to flood with his Starlink Satellites. One would think maybe that would be FAA but they only handle the vehicles. And let's face it, the FCC really only cares about the radio & other communication aspect. Well, that and how much they can auction off public resources for, like frequency bands/channels and now, entire orbit shells, but that's just my opinion.

which wasn't built to take the kind of pressure those multiple engines generated.

The rocket itself was blown up far out to sea because the stages didn't separate, another thing that was rushed because Musk was in such a huge hurry to test that first stage.

Most of the team expected it to blow up on the launch pad, one remarking during the live stream that anything above the level of the gantry was a successful launch.

This needs to be grounded until Musk realizes there is a whole system and that the first stage rockets are only a part of that system and he can't cut corners on safety and he can't rush his team.

Decent discussion as well as dust analysis from Port Isabel at https://www.sciencealert.com/spacexs-starship-is-grounded-after-reducing-its-launchpad-to-rubble

...were still able to receive and enact a termination "destruct" signal. The way that rocket was spinning, if the termination command had not worked, that thing could have headed straight for SPI. Total disaster.

At least Musk (apparently) did not cut corners with the destruct mechanism.