Though it must be said that NASA apparently never signed off on the strut explanation. So conceivably it was never the strut, in which case it could be the same

Though it must be said that NASA apparently never signed off on the strut explanation. So conceivably it was never the strut, in which case it could be the same issue. Then again, I assume the people working on this are much smarter than me and have much more information, so they probably considered and rejected that too.