You did read the rest of my post, right?
:-)
Wikipedia on the A320 Family:
These incidents are very, very rare. They are tragic, but it's not a dangerous airplane so it can't be a dangerous design.
Every airliner has engineering compromises. Money spent linking the sticks and providing feedback, and so forth, is money that can't be spent on other things - like more rigorous training about cockpit communications - that may cover many more types of pathologies that can lead to accidents.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Wikipedia on the A320 Family:
From 1959 through 2013, the Airbus A320 family of jets experienced 14 fatal hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs, one of the smallest fatality rates of any family of jets included in the study.
These incidents are very, very rare. They are tragic, but it's not a dangerous airplane so it can't be a dangerous design.
Every airliner has engineering compromises. Money spent linking the sticks and providing feedback, and so forth, is money that can't be spent on other things - like more rigorous training about cockpit communications - that may cover many more types of pathologies that can lead to accidents.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.