Fact : American Airlines has completed in excess of 17 million flights, its one of the worlds safest airlines. Whilst a number of airlines in North America are statistically safer than American Airlines, on a global scale, only a few other large established airlines are statistically safer than American, i.e, British Airways, Lufthansa, All Nippon, Mexicana Airlines, and Qantas, however if you add the number of flights by all these airlines together they will only just get over the number of flights that American have completed.
Fact : No one here can attest to what the pilot intended to do, or what training he received.
Fact : The structure failed after loads were induced in the structure by pilot control inputs.
Fact : The loads induced to cause structural failure exceeded FAA certification requirements.
Fact : The A300 has had less incidents per number of flights than the B747, and has killed fewer people.
