Flyboy..... the only place the A330 has been "beleaguered" is here on Prune by you as flyboy and your various other pseudonym's. (Tim Hamilton was another one as I recall)
Do you really think if the aircraft was so "unsafe" that the guys and girls who fly it would happily spend hundreds of hours a year in it and by and large enjoy flying it?
BTW...... is this you FlyBoy737800???
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