[discostu]

From what I'm reading I'm being left with the impression (nobody is saying it outright, it's just how these things are coming together in my brain) that possibly the doubling and extra rivets created additional preasure in the area near this repair (not the repaired area itself). Like I said, nothing that anybody has said outright, just the feeling I'm getting that this repair cause a shift in how stressing forces were absorbed by the tail that weakened areas other than the actual repair.

[Thud]

If the original repair job created different and unanticipated stresses which eventually caused a failure, Airbus will breathe a lot easier. That is a one of kind matter as opposed to anything inherent in the design of that type of aircraft.