Same here. I know / worked with several engineers involved in the development of the Flight Controls of recent Airbus airliners and that often swore that they w

Same here. I know / worked with several engineers involved in the development of the Flight Controls of recent Airbus airliners and that often swore that they were going to avoid taking the model they were currently working on (usually based on some "critical" technical concern that turned out to be insignificant a few weeks later). My answer was usually to mock them and say "so just because you are looking from too close and have lost perspective you prefer to fly an ageing aircraft or trust some random Boeing contractor more than yourself". And fast forward ten years, the "deathtraps" they were working on - A340, A380 and A350 - turned out to be extremely safe (with fatality-free records).