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A leak in one of the fuel tanks ignited... if you watch a video on YouTube you can see smoke coming out of the side (You have to look very hard). Midflight, the fuel tank exploded. Interestingly, when recovery crews found the crew module, they saw that they drowned in the capsule when they hit the ocean, rather than get burned by fire or from the shock of the explosion.

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