Originally Posted by
henra
With the A320 being in Service for almost 30years and more than 7000 of them produced and >6500 of them still flying and >150Million Flight Hours you find the huge bug in the Design that only by pure luck did not down them by the hundreds, previously????
Seriously....
Everytime you think it can't get any crazier...
Maybe, maybe not. Without weighing in on the merits of the specific question currently, consider how many 747s flew perfectly, carrying millions of passengers before TWA 800 in July 1996. And after just that one accident, a design change was required requiring inert gases in the fuel tanks.
Or consider Concorde had a perfect record until one accident in 2000, and suddenly design changes were required after a bad day.
No doubt the A320 series has proven to be a safe aircraft. But lack of accidents does not mean there are no underlying issues, and if any arise in the future they would need to be addressed.