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Originally Posted by Dan02
You mean the chances on a plane that had a repair done on its tail section in response to a tailstrike many years before? As mentioned in the earlier posts, it's happened before.
On a new plane I'd agree with your assessment but with this particular plane it's history leaves other viable options open. It's not called explosive decompression because the air slowly leaks out.
Time will tell though.
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Look at this picture, the tailstrike your talking about was 15 years ago and it's a scrape roughly under the rear door, in the picture you can see just how far forward this was blown away. you can even see some of the aluminum peeled outward.
Nobody will ever convince me that tail fell off because of a repaired scrape along the runway, if you believe it you better stop flying on the stretched airbus aircraft because lots have nicked the runway over the years.