Rocket, we had a similar experience during Corporate when one of the Victors decided to distribute the internals of the HDU fuel pump into the bomb bay and outside world. Our riggers worked wonders skinning patching and re-ribbing. It was flown back without any problems.
I do wonder if the modern minimally trained engineers could do the same job, no fault of theirs.
It also concerns me about BDR on some of these highly complex, stealthy composites.