The Struts play Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Napa Valley Opera House.

The struts are designed to handle 10,000 pounds of force at liftoff; at the time of the accident, they would have been seeing only 2,000 pounds of force. A failure at such a low threshold is ...