As the article surmised, one of the engines did indeed fail and the craft corrected for the failure. "Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines a

As the article surmised, one of the engines did indeed fail and the craft corrected for the failure. "Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down. As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in realtime to reach the target orbit…" http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/10/07/falcon-9-suffers-engine-anomoly/ http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/10/07/falcon-9-suffers-engi...