I am sure many are seeing the same thing. CIG states it's because calling up the ship in the wrong hanger. Personally I call BS on that as I've had it happen to small ships as well as large ships. I appear to fit but blow up when leaving the hanger.
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I wait until i can't hear the hangar doors opening anymore before leaving the pad. Never boom from zoom.
I've had luck with leaving my landing gear down until I've left the hangar. Maybe it's just coincidence but it was happening to me pretty often until I started leaving my gear down.
I had that too one session. The hangar doors would be open but when the ship gets handed off from the hangar physics grid to the city physics grid the hangar doors are still closed = boom.
I switched regional servers and never had it happen again.
It can happen anywhere but I've had it happen to me at distribution centers and at Orison. You leave the hangar, fly for a few seconds, and explode. One of the people in my org lost most of her gear by loading it into a C2 and trying to leave Orison.
If you're moving important items then the correct order of operations is to leave the hangar, wait a minute to see if you explode, then use local inventory to load your ship just outside the hangar.
Sudden ship death syndrome can also be caused by invisible asteroids and by Eclipse pilots dumbfiring a torpedo.
How fast are you leaving the hangar