Destroyed inside station

[Jagax]

So, I was going to head out to the next system with a hold 2/3 full of rares from different systems.
Launched from a pad just about in the middle of a station and ascended to mail slot level where a Type 9 seems to be stuck, trying to turn before clearing so of course it got stuck.
I stay well clear just above my pad since I don't want to get close and get shot up.

The station starts firing but for some reason there aren't any guns inside the actual slot to clear it so the station first tries the guns outside and shoots down some poor adder about to enter then the station programming (don't want to call it AI for sure) starts using guns in the back of the station firing across all the landing pads.

You'd think someone could figure out that firing across the landing pads would be a bad idea.
If you can't program the ships to clear the slot before turning and want to have the station blow them up, maybe it would be a good idea to have guns inside the slot to take care clearing it instead of firing across the landing pads, destroying multiple ships inside the station trying to get to that stuck ship ?

So about a million and a half in insurance fees and lost cargo due to some extremely poor design.
Ticketed of course but I'm not holding any real hopes of reply nor refund.

 

[Flossy]

I stay well clear just above my pad since I don't want to get close and get shot up.

Sorry to hear of your loss, but I suspect you were also being targeted for 'loitering' over the pad you had just left. If you need to wait for the slot to be cleared, make sure you aren't above (or below!) any pads while you do.

 

[Armante]

You can usually duck down low, closer to the 'floor' and landing pads while the shooting is going on, then fly out when the debris clears

 

[Jagax]

Sorry to hear of your loss, but I suspect you were also being targeted for 'loitering' over the pad you had just left. If you need to wait for the slot to be cleared, make sure you aren't above (or below!) any pads while you do.

Well, it was "my own" pad I left 30 secs earlier, (4:59 to clear that and station ?) and no fine or warning for loitering so I really doubt that was the case.
More like poor design having guns fire across landing pads to get to the slot. I was not the only ship destroyed inside.
I mean, if you come up with the idea of having the station clear the slot (very good and necessary idea) then I have a hard time seeing as how you then can't be smart enough to realise the problems with having that station fire across the landing pads.
From there (realising the problem with innocent victims) one would think it isn't such a big leap to put guns for clearing the slot inside the slot.