I've only skimmed over the first and second pages of replies, but wonder whether the same "experts", even those who write to the editor of "Aviation Week and ST" will still insist that sections of the rudder or vertical stabilizer can ONLY come off when a pilot does so-called "bicycling" on the rudder pedals.
Let's not clarify the reported fact that increasing movement on a A-300/310 pedal seems to cause a disproportionate increase in rudder angle (increased sensitivity?), or whether Airbus tested the composite materials throughout the temperature and pressure ranges of actual flight conditions. Heaven help any Air Transat mechanics who could have made a mistake.
Let's rest assured that there can never be a connection between the AMR 587 disaster and the Transat incident? No chance of that..... I suppose.