I posted a thread a few weeks ago about a very unsafe airline that is flying the -200, and may end up crashing one, there are some startups in Asia now that are a bit dodgy (Orient Thai, Thai Sky, Phuket Air).
Three years ago, I flew out of Minot on a DC-9 that only got about 15 minutes out, when they had to turn it around to land because part of the tail wing had fallen off. Spent the night in a hotel next to the airport for a 4:30am flight out on another DC-9 for a 4 week vacation in PHX visiting my brother. Came back to Minot and that plane that lost part of the tail wing was still sitting on the ramp.
I wonder why they flew out of Toulouse instead of de Gaulle. My first thought was that Charles de Gaulle Airport must not have been adequately equipped for the A380.