From the little I could find on it, it sounds like the rocket actually landed... and then sorta kept landing until RUD. Is that right? There was more slam than hover in this particular maneuver?
The live video from the ship didn't work well (something about satellite dishes makes them work poorly when there's a massive rocket blasting them with fire, apparently) but from the few frames that made it through, the rocket clearly managed to come to rest upright on the ship. There was a great deal of residual fire, everything was clouded in smoke and compression artifacts, and the last frame was from only about four seconds after touchdown. It's hard to tell exactly what was going on, but it looks like it hit hard, broke the legs or the fuel tank, and after a few seconds it exploded or fell over or both.
"Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max."
> When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, son, the strongest castle in all of England.
SpaceX may be doing things in a slightly different order, but maybe eventually all of their castles, er, rockets are going to stay up on the landing pad. :-)
[1] https://twitter.com/deimosimaging/status/743153542362439680