I am sure that the senior AA pilot gleefully pointed out that in 75 years this was the first aircraft ever to loose its tailfin. He seemed to stress that this would never happen to a boeing.
I am sure I remember a B707 loosing a tailfin in severe turbulance over Mount Fuji in the 60s, killing all on board. Does this not count because it was not an Airbus?
The whole program could have been summed up in 2 minutes. If you reverse rudder several times at speed in any aircraft be it Airbus or Boeing you will exceed max load and are likely to end up in severe difficulty! Yet they padded it out with lots of anti Airbus Rhetoric, and tried to insinuate some kind of Airbus coverup.