Following the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 A300-600, some serious research regarding the safety of composite vertical stabilisers (fins) fitted to some Airbus models is going to have to be done asap.
Read the link below for further info:
http://www.pprune.org/cgibin/ultimat...1&t=016658&p=2
Unfortunately, one of the Airbus models incorporating this structure is the A320 (the ONLY aircraft that Ansett now operates), which may forseeably suffer from loss of passenger confidence in the least.
To the detriment of the B737, have Ansett put all their eggs in the wrong basket by going with ONLY the A320?