Flat db healing failed with MerkleTrieException on 24.12.0-RC2

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During testing of 24.12.0-RC2, one node failed the sync during the flat db healing step with a MerkleTrieException. There are no other exceptions in the log.

{"@timestamp":"2024-12-09T09:43:38,974","level":"INFO","thread":"EthScheduler-Services-34 (batchHealAndPersistFlatStorageData)","class":"Pipeline","message":"Unexpected exception in pipeline. Aborting.
Throwable summary: org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.trie.MerkleTrieException: Unable to load trie node value for hash 0x7c645ffe7048d604cc92a50f9e033b98e05ff48fe07e6d0223abf58fe274d8ce location 0x040005
	at: org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.trie.StoredNode.lambda$load$0(StoredNode.java:135)","throwable":""}

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dev-elc-bu-nb-sepolia-burn-snap-24.12.0-RC2_besu.log

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I've taken a snapshot of node so we can inspect the database if needed