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Old 23rd Aug 2009, 11:00
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Leodis737
 
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Air France Airbus safety record

Before getting worked-up about this:

- their last (and only previous) fatal Airbus accident was the A320 airshow crash in 1988, in which 3 died and 136 survived, despite the plane coming down in a forest;

- in the Toronto accident mentioned in the article, everyone got out alive despite a post crash fire - and the causes of the crash were not in any way related to the aircraft being an Airbus, could equally have been a Boeing.

See Aviation Safety Network for a list.

Not saying all is perfect at AF (or anywhere else), but to suggest it is an Airbus thing just seems like muckraking.
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