...Actually, while I'm criticising Airbus, it would be amiss not to mention the A400M incident [1] [2]. Unfortunately as a military accident the full report was never made available to the public, but based on the available information, failure to load calibration data for the engine computers during manufacturing resulted in the engines shutting down... once they got to the altitude where that calibration data was needed, and found to be absent.

The idea that Airbus would design engine computers not to check the validity of vital calibration data until the aeroplane is in the air, and then respond to that contingency when it is identified by shutting down the engines, is so obscene I think I've usually tried to assume that there must be something amiss about the (very limited) reporting as to the details of the issue.

But considering your words, and the general lack of consideration that Airbus seems to give to these things the more and more I look at accidents involving Airbus craft, maybe they just really are truly bad at this stuff... it's quite disturbing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A400M#Accidents [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/repor...