Originally Posted by 18-Wheeler
You might want to balance your post by also mentioning the 747 in the early 70's that took off on the wrong runway in San Fransico, and the lighting gear at the end of the runway tore out the belly of the plane.
To be balanced, I could mention SQ006 at TPE.
Originally Posted by 18-Wheeler
So some of those accidents protrayed had the design of the craft doing what it was supposed to do.
All of those incidents were due to the people who flew them not the people who designed/built them. Just like the Iberia A340 incident today, hardly something a manufacturer has control over.
Originally Posted by 18-Wheeler
But true enough they have had some odd failures from time to time.
Which was my point, they make aircraft no better or worse, failures like those the manufacture has control over when they design or build them.
A manufacturer has no control over ramp/hanger rash.