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.."This was not a location for a join of fuselage sections.
Please take a close look in the photo- a few inches to the right of the letters A321- there is a vertical line visible from there to the bottom. Also just belwo the two blanked windows is a horizontal line.
The vertical line IS a production join- The horizontal line is a doubler " plate" around the row of windows- typically riveted-bolted internal to the skin as a tear stopper. Where the horizontal and vertical lines visible on the skin join is slightly above where the red lines showing the ' tear" turn horizontal - and are all typical of where a failure in tension would take place. This supports a tension failure in upper half of body- with the section aft of red line being pushed downward.