I read an unconfirmed report that the glue holding the layers was mush. I'll run with that because that is exactly how the hull would succumb to fatigue. A carbon fiber sheet is extremely stiff and strong in its plane, but very floppy out of it. In tension, not in-plane compression.
Now, all the billionaires are screaming for revenge, but they brought this on with "I'm a billionaire influencer, believe me." They destroyed the Scientific Method, so they can scream some more.
A carbon fiber pressure vessel is great for holding high pressure hydrogen and is good for rocket shafts, but who certified it for compression? Nobody. When such a hull is compressed, the fiber sheets are useless. they don't take up compression. All of the stress is taken up by the glue in shear. Glue is strong in shear, but don't bring it to max strength, or beyond 10% . It will start to accumulate adhesion faults, which is fatigue, and it goes on until the glue is mush.
It's quite amazing how all the compressive stress is converted to shear. This was Influencer Science, and we'll see more disasters down the road.
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