Originally Posted by
rydabent
But as I have posted before the French Airbus airplanes have had the vertical tail section and rudder break off at least 3 planes, killing several hundred people. Some senior pilots wont fly an Airbus or let their families fly on them.
Correction;
Airbus is a European consortium, not a French Company.
The last tail separation was in 2009 and some pilots believe the world is flat.
The tail separations were not linked to the use of composites but rather an issue with the controls and flight computer.
This Aircraft was designed in 1971 and stopped production in 2007