Mxsmanic wrote:

James Robinson writes:

Ignoring much of the controvery over the investigaion, the pilot at
Habsheim should get a major chunk of the blame. Anyone who chose to
risk an aircraft, full of passengers, at the limits of its
capability, during an unpracticed demonstration, over an airfield he
was unfamiliar with, should have his head examined.

Any combination of Airbus and Air France is hazardous, because Airbus
doesn't like to admit when its planes have defects, and Air France
pilots are cowboys who greatly overestimate their skills and don't
like to do things the safe way.

Airbus' overall safety record is just as good as Boeing's, so your rants
are misdirected.

Air France, on the other hand, seems to have emerging culture problems that
I thought they had shaken after their spate of accidents in the 1960s.
Their safety group has to be under a management microscope with all their
recent problems. Korean Air seems to have sorted their problems out, no
reason Air France can't.