A) It is not a massive piece of metal...it is a massive piece of composite.
B) The wing failed its test--it did not pass Certificate minimums...yet, they certified it anyway (?) More numbers-fudging by the Europeans...?
C) There may be some who would kill to fly this disaster-in-waiting...or some who will be killed while flying it.
As the tail disintegrations on the A300s and A310s (Interflug, AA 587, AA 903, Air Transat 961 and the Fed Ex tail found to be delaminated last November due to hydraulic fluid entrainment) show that Airbus has not put in place an adequate NDT inspection regime to ensure the interior of the composites in the various structures are not wearing down or damaged internally by turbulence, etc.
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