Airbus A330-200 and -300 have an excellent safety record...only 1 has ever crashed= on the initial test flying at tolouse, it stalled killing the 7 engineers on board. I believe air france uses the GE cf-6 engine on their fleet. If any one knows what the weather was like chime in...search is near fernando de noronha-brazil, which looks like this happened at least 2 hrs after takeoff.