The FAA has grounded SpaceX's Starship pending an investigation into why the rocket's upper stage dramatically disintegrated in its latest flight.

Flights across the Caribbean were hastily diverted on Thursday following the explosion of a rocket built by Elon Musk's company, SpaceX. The chaos was revealed in flight tracking data and audio exchanges between pilots and air traffic control, as reviewed by NPR.

The Federal Aviation Administration told TechCrunch it had to "briefly" slow and divert a number of aircraft near the area where debris was seen falling