BTW, not all the boeing stuff was serious crashes, there were a few emergency landings that skidded off, one plane got blown up in Thailand before anyone was on it, etc.
But, Airbus has had a good safety record since its last fatal crash, Boeing has had several crashes of the 737-200 series, mostly because they were old and in shoddy maintenance airlines.
Boeing and Airbus both make great planes, and they make each other better with competition.
The only problem is their composite airframe parts disintegrate when under contact with hydraulic fluid.
They haven't yet re-opened the investigation into the Airbus crash in New York after 9/11, but when they do I'll bet they figure out that the rudder came apart, and took the vertical stabilizer out with it, like this flight from Cuba almost did. The rear attach brackets on the vertical were overstressed and damaged by that incident.
Since virtually any airframe part can have hydraulic fluid in/on it, I don't trust any Airbus equipment with composite parts (probably all of them).
I only hope Boeing gets their resin system correct in the 787 so they don't have that problem, because the whole airplane will be composite.