@Petercwelch - I don't think that's a fair question. Going purely on statistics there have been two Boeing airliners (both 757s) that have ended up in the drink due to unreliable air data causing pilots to mishandle the aircraft, whereas to date it has only happened with one Airbus.
The issue at hand is whether the cockpit environment on older airliners is more conducive to help the pilots understand the problem (overcontrol -> stall -> loss of control). Some on here are adamant that it would be the case, others are not so sure.
3 pilots, 6 opinions and all that...
@DC-ATE - you could crash a DC-8 on approach by pulling a single lever too early ("It is forbidden to crash this airplane"). You could disable the takeoff trim warning on a DC-9 just by pulling a single circuit breaker that connected to a bunch of other systems, some of which were on the MEL. You could crash a DC-10 by not closing the door properly, and the door latch design itself would have caused Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson to us Brits) to wince. In the latter case, Douglas effectively bribed the FAA to not release that information while promising to fix the problem - they didn't fix it properly and nearly three hundred people died. Don't talk to me about Long Beach's supposedly superior engineering skills - they were riding the coattails of the DC-3's popularity and producing shoddy designs right up until they closed their doors.