You hear a lot about Range Safety at the Cape -- they are the guys in the black hats who slow operations to a crawl with all of their onerous requirements. Like Flight Termination Systems, which enable range safety officers to send destruct signals to rockets that have careened out of control.
Take a look at the video below. It shows a 1996 Long March launch, and the resulting devastation to a community near China's prime spaceport. This is why we have Range Safety:
chinalaunch.wmv
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