The Airbus 330 has a long history of losing the verticle stab, of course it's much easier to blame it on the dead guys, no lawsuits that way, but look at all the tails that have come off the A330's (Air France coming out of South America)...it's not the pilots, it's the design.

The Colgan crash near Buffalo I believe you are refering to was indeed Pilot Error, but that airplane (a Q400) also has a bad history of accumulating ice on the tail in the -wrong- conditions, which is exactly what they were in, that night. The auto pilot had been on but it kicked off when it could no longer sustain adequate control over the horizontal stab, which had iced up. The pilot took the wrong actions (which is still being debated by some experts) ending in a stall/spin into the house.

Look no further than the FAA to see who is responsible for certifying these 2 POS airplane designs. That's why a lot of us have stickers on our flight kits that say,

"If it ain't Boeing, I'm not going."

And now Boeing has managed to F'up the 787 by outsourcing the builds to the 3rd world. Brilliant!


We all know the Pilot's are always at fault, they should have called in sick that day!

There is no computer that is better than any human pilot. Computers are not flexible enough to adapt to sudden changes in...everything. You would not have a computer sail your boat on a gusty day, would you?