Decompressing kernel... failed, data error!

After some use & abuse by our students one of Mikrotik hAP ac stopped networiking. After some soldering and serial connection by USB adaptor I got following output:

OpenWrt kernel loader for AR7XXX/AR9XXX
Copyright (C) 2011 Gabor Juhos juhosg@openwrt.org
Decompressing kernel... failed, data error!

System halted!

Any ideas how to repair the firmware?
Thanks

The kernel image in flash is corrupted you should try re-flashing.

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