Indeed, RRAAMJET BDL it was, a perfectly serviceable aircraft flown into the trees.
Denver, just recently I might add...unstable approach found some of the frangible bits of the approach lights.
LittleRock, with a system chief pilot (no less) off the end, trying to land in a thunderstorm.
And, the worst of all, Cali, where a totally confused crew ran right smack into a hill, because they could't follow the most basic of instruments, the RMI, which should have been tuned to the proper LF beacon, but ignored by this crew, so pre-occupied they were with entering incorrect data into the FMC, and then finding themselves in deep doggie do-do, tried to climb away, with the spoilers still extended.
A sorry record, would't you agree?
But then again, an AA pilot would be inclined to dismiss all this as just bad luck, or perhaps faulty equipment.
Others, more objectively concerned with a definite pattern of deficient training, simply can't agree.
AA587 was no different. Nothing wrong with the aeroplane, yet the vertical fin departed, according to the NTSB, because the handling pilot overused the rudder...in the extreme.
If there was anything completely wrong with the A300-600 design, it would have been found out long ago, by other operators.
Sadly, AA was the first...with good reason, IMO.
The facts really do speak for themselves...that is, to anyone objective enough to actually read the NTSB findings.