Stardate 20011119.1647 (On Screen): American Airlines has checked the tail fins on all the 34 remaining A-300's which they still have flying (down from 35). They say that they found nothing wrong. My first reaction to this was skepticism. It's not that I think there are necessarily systemic flaws in the jet, as much as that at this point I think that American Airlines has too much of a vested interest in reassuring the US flying public of the safety of its fleet for me to believe anything they say. I'd have felt more confident if AA had permitted inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration to do the inspecting, and if the announcement had come from the FAA.
(discussion in progress)If I were something like BBSpot or The Onion, I would have written a spoof article where American Airlines announced that it hadn't actually had a jet crash last week after all. Alas, I'm not that clever.
