A former A330 driver told me a decade ago that the airbus aircrafts have many traps and the Airbus techies were generally very overconfident; he reckoned that there would be many accidents/incidences caused by those traps caused by transient electrical problems which can not be proved or even replicated. Even in labs and bench tests, a lot of electrical or electronic transients cannot be replicated. Looked like we have the Air France A330 off the African coast and many more which might not make the big headlines........we are all very lucky so far.
People and techies who think a world of themselves ( airbus supporters ) keep burying their heads in the sand. Likewise people who debunks every anecdotal evidence of cell phones usage in aircrafts which lead to the occasional electromagnetic transients which combine with right circumstances can cause great harm to other vital electronics. try as they may, the lab boys cannot never replicate every circumstance surrounding an accident/incident.
