Should the fuselage have stayed in tact?....
May/may not be related but definitely worthy of scrutiny... Dateline, a current affairs program in Australia, did a story just last month about three other 737NG aircraft that have crashed on landing and broken up because of defective parts by a Boeing supplier which Boeing ignored even after two employees made them aware of the problems: "They say they couldn't keep quiet any longer over defective parts being made by a subcontractor, Ducommun, which they say were then allowed into 737 Next Generation planes between 1996 and 2004… some even had to be hammered into shape or packed with filler to make them fit."
See the story and read the transcript here: SBS Dateline | A Wing and a Prayer
The court case is still ongoing, and pretty much indicates the underlying attitude of Boeing to "excellence" of their product, instead of rectifying the fraudulent components and suing the supplier, they dismiss the 3 QA staff involved in uncovering the fraud and the safety issue.
So far there have been now 4 cases of B737NGs with these fraudulent parts that have broken up in a similar fashion. Coincidence? Perhaps, but the first fatality will come back to haunt Boeing I suspect.
Boeing's "Lipgloss on the Pig" re core values and ethics following their past ethical misbehaviour appears to be just that; gloss.