The tone of most of the statements on this thread suggest to me that what most of you are saying is... "It's french so therefore I don't trust it".
What a ridiculous argument.
Remember that there have been plenty of rubbish aeroplanes that have come out of the USA, but does that make all US aircraft equally poor quality?
Airbus have been running civil FBW aircraft without incident for longer than many of you people have been alive.
It's P Prune not Prune. Though recently I startedt to wonder about that.
Edit to add:
I'd also like to stress what someone said earlier. Airbus is equally German. Bear in mind that most people tend to have a very biased perception of French engineering to German engineering.
Last edited by nick2007; 2nd Dec 2008 at 01:09.
Reason: To add to my tirade