"When the French pilots put an Airbus in level flight into a stall and then flew it into the ocean, I don't recall anyone here making the general proclamation that "French pilots can't fly."
No, but AF had suffered some critical failures that have caught many a clever Airbus pilot out in the sim.
This 777 accident may well turn out to be a perfectly serviceable aircraft crashing on a CAVOK day.
Should we compare accident rates from western Europe and Asia? Anybody