Right. Blame the crew, not the plane. Sorry, I don't buy it. If the Airbus planes were so good, why have United, American, Delta etc.. stopped buying them and switched almost exclusively to Boeing's narrow-body series?
Hmmmm.....
As I recall, the first A300 in its debut at the Paris Airshow was showing off its state-of-the-art flight control system and flew itself into the trees. The pilot was their best and most experienced, their head pilot, and he said he could not regain control of the plane to correct its course. They blamed him and fired him in disgrace. Now why would a pilot with his experience and reputation risk death and dishonor, as well as loss of a high paying job and pension, to fly a plane ionto the ground and lie about it? Not likely to happen.