Catastrophic failure? Check

Plane landed without casualties? Check

Plane design so good it helped avoid casualties? Check

Hum... Ah! Not an american Boeing but a french Airbus. Of course.

The article mentions this story should make everyone a little less afraid of flying.

Sure, as long as its not on a Boeing plane.

Like Boeing, there was organizational dysfunction leading to a direct safety issue.

During the development of the A380, the German and French sides were using different versions of the CATIA PLM software (i.e. CAD), which prevented people from looking at a single unified model of the plane. One concrete problem it caused was major problems with the wiring harnesses, which led to a 2 year delay in the program, and 3 early A380's which couldn't be sold. (Airbus kept one for test, the other two got sent to museums)

That manifested in this accident because the wing wiring was routed through the engine disk burst axes (a hazard which is explicitly accounted for) with insufficient redundancy. That created the dangerous situation where they couldn't turn off the engine after landing.

Read about the AF447 Rio-Paris crash. Input stick averaging?? That's a huge design mistake which contributed to the crash and AFAIK is still here..

Airbus is French, German and British. Not just French.

An aviation thread with two utterly ignorant posts - [0]. Is that the aviation knowledge level of HN?

[0] - this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541946

I thought this was a strange insertion of geopolitics into the conversation so I checked out this account’s comment history. It’s good for others to see that some commenters here have a serious axe to grind and are not really “hackers” as their primary interest here. The most recent comments in order:

> [something about london taxi drivers, admittedly unrelated]

> I totally get you and in theory you are right. And yet, in the USA you have gerrymandering and apparently _wanted_ Trump. Twice. Something has to be very wrong somewhere.

> I would suggest "lobbying" is not the correct word to describe all the corruption going on in the current USA administration cesspool.

>I recently bought a BambuLab 3D printer. Designed and made in China. Right from the unpacking to first print the experience was top Apple-style quality. Indeed I was agreeably surprised.

> A global non USA success? Plenty. You might want to remove your pink USA glasses and look around. Spotify good enough for you?

> I am Canadian. Never, ever would i knowingly buy any dairy products from the USA , at any price. We have cows too, and farmers.

> Its not that it hates its customers , as much as it it a USA-based company that is run under the rules made by the administration. Not that much different from running Red Star OS from North Korea, actually.

> [Finally something unrelated]