I agree, hashing up the detail of an old accident is useless. But I would like to point out that in the last 25 years Air France has written off 8 aircraft. Damaged two substantially (a 747-400, and a 747-200, both off the runway). Add Air Inter and UTA (both merged into Air France) and you can add two more aircraft written off. The details can all be checked on the Aviation Safety Network website. These are Korean Airlines kind of numbers. Many of the hull losses did not result in fatalities. But as a reference BA, Lufthansa, and KLM each suffered one hull loss in the same time span. Could be bad luck. But I have wonder if the German or British authorities would not be right in there, making sure there isn’t a systemic problem, if their flag carrier was putting in these kind of numbers.