411A,
Your comments,
"Strange that only AA have had these problems with the A300-600...and no wonder why."
What other Airline has flown into the center of a horizontal tornado lately? (This is the first such accident in 100 years of flight.)
"When one places his size twelves on the rudder pedals and pushes hard (as the previous Captain indicated happened before), the results are not pretty, as all can clearly see now."
In this case, the previous Captain's comments are irrelevant, as the co-pilot had no control of the rudders, after a certain point in time!