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Here's a video of the desired behavior, more or less:

The video's a few years old, so the hardware's changed a bit since then, but I think you'll get the idea. :)

Thanks, I remember watching this along time ago. I was under the impression they had landing the rocket all figured out after this :)

It ran out of hydraulic fluid and could not control itself properly. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/553963793056030721

Because the fins were locked, they might have thrown off the control code.