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Note the huge preponderance of Airbus in this list; Airbus likes to
add automation gadgets to their aircraft, and problems are common,
both because of defects in the systems, and because crews do not know
how to use and interact with the systems.




Fate plays such cruel tricks sometimes!
If only Airbus were aware that, as close as Paris, a few hundred miles away,
lives a leading world expert - perhaps even THE pre-eminent thinker on
aviation failure modes, who has at his fingertips the solution to their
massive accident rate. And at the same time this thinker is out of a job -
so destitute that he cannot afford any book, or even instruction to learn to
comprehend the few, dusty volumes he can get his hands on - he must while
away his days pretending to fly airplanes, wishing he could find practical
application for his advanced theories.

A simple phone call is all it would take for both sides of this cruel
non-equation to meet in triumphal success. Yet, we can be sure, the phone
call is not forthcoming - will never happen . . .