chillpill [page 3] what 757 CFM alternative are you thinking of? Mr. Boeing's website only lists RB211 and PW20xx alternatives...
All this talk about load-bearing composites is all very well, but considering no analysis has yet been done on likely g-forces at point of failure it seems a bit previous.
The tail wouldn't have fallen off if wake vortex hadn't occurred, unless the tail was faulty already. Mr. Airbus only has to build them to tolerances involving normal flight conditions - he can't account for incorrect separation, otherwise we wouldn't need separation.
Sure we'd all like to fly in scramjet-powered steel boxes but that's not gonna happen anytime soon...