SMUDGECAT, as an engineer I respect your opinion more than anyones when it comes to this thread. Have you heard anything more about this?
Heard more very recently from an employee that the aircraft could be an insurance write off. What LOOSERIVETS wrote seems to be true, an airframe engineer pal of mine has been quoted from another engineer pal (I know this sounds very 'freind of a friend' stuff; but I swear they are licensed engineers) that the airframe is potentially knackered beyond financial repair.