ORIGINAL: Vincent
i can assure you that ANYTHING can happen when you get a spike, surge, short etc...
No question.
My guess might be an intermittent with the signal trace on the Rx bus, perhaps an intermittent short to the power bus, something making the pulse width vary and causing the servo to drive hard over. That or the TX program or hardware has gone nuts and is causing the servo to overdrive, that is the only thing I have ever seen melt a servo case, driving hard againt the stops.