Air Disasters Waiting To Happen

maximax8, Well, I do not know about you, but when I had my first experience on the Airbus, I was very concern indeed because this plane only has 2 engines as compared to 4 with the Boeing. So, you can imagine my concerns and reactions when I was on that flight which was using Airbus. Fortunately, it was just a short one from Singapore to Bangkok which is a relatively short 2 hours flight. Where the concerned airline was actually testing it before they use it for the Kangaroo hop. I can assure you that I was just not going well with it - being a "guinea pig". Most of the time, as travelers we do know what aircraft is being used on our flight to a particular destination, however, we just cannot choose them as Airbus is indeed making their presence much more dominant than Boeing. So, we can never really get to choose on short haul flights and especially when they are very heavily used by low cost airlines. As you can gather from this article, I am just shocked that cross wiring which have been the predominant faults of the Boeing and MD's can be prevalent today on the popular and much used Airbus. I was like what is happening here? How could this be happening? I do not know what is your opinion with regards to aircraft breaking apart in midair, but I am literally questioning the quality control and raw materials used in the construction of the aircraft. I would not be surprised if there is a lapse in the quality control here but sad to say, there will not be any telling soon enough to prevent another air disaster. So, until the authorities and neutral bodies can come up with some stringent measures and internal audits, there is just no way we can really have any answers to these spate of events. And until that day, each trip by air (evermore so with low cost airlines) will be no different from a game of Russian Roulette.