deSitter:
...in fact the CVR of 587 recorded a very loud bang heard all the way on the other end of the aircraft.
In point of fact it would have been loud enough that ACARS would have reported it. ACARS did not. Therefore one can safely infer that loud bang and the event you propose might have caused it did not take place.
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Please do consider it in your scenarios, particularly VS scenarios, guys.