[Zakeet]

This is gonna make a super-jumbo mess if those government subsidized experts are wrong!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Crack kills!

[JRandomFreeper]

If it's not a Boeing, I'm not going.

Not that I'll go anyway, what with the TSA bullstuff.

/johnny

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’m going to go find an AIRBUS picture Jigsaw Puzzle. That should be an accurate depiction.

[circlecity]

"They do not affect safe operation of the aircraft."

Until they do.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’m going to go find an AIRBUS picture Jigsaw Puzzle. That should be an accurate depiction.

[Steely Tom]

"Additional cracks have been found and we are working closely on this issue with EASA," an Airbus spokesman said. "They do not affect safe operation of the aircraft."

Of course they don't. Why, our research even indicates that cracks in major structural elements of passenger aircraft, just a few years into their expected decades-long service life, actually enhances passenger safety.

[William of Barsoom]

Remember the British “Comet Jet” of the late 1950s?

One of these monster devils will suddenly have a major structural failure AT speed and AT altitude, and the poor bugger driving it won't have time to hit his radio transmit button before he's in minus sixty degree air, and flying along with the thousands of independent and disconnected little pieces that used to be his airplane.

If it happens over deepwater, it could take months to even find the debris field...

[Bobalu]

If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!

[Psycho_Bunny]

I wouldn’t get on a 172 that had cracks on the wings. I don’t care how much redundancy is built into the 380....THERE’S A REASON THE CRACKS ARE THERE.

[sphinx]

Cracks in the wing? What’s the big deal — it has two.

Am I qualified to be an Airbus PR guy, or what?

[count-your-change]

It will be a safe aircraft until a wing comes off, then it won’t so safe.

[smokingfrog]

Airbus A380 test wing breaks just below ultimate load target

[grobdriver]

These morons are going to have to loose one of these (and a couple of hundred people) before they do anything.

I wonder if the FAA can prohibit a particular aircraft model from operating in US airspace...

At least the debris from the thing coming apart in flight won't rain down on American heads.

[Moonman62]

The A380 design and manufacture was heavily influenced by politics. What could possibly go wrong?

[Moonman62]

The A380 makes the BUFF look sleek and elegant.

[elteemike]

In Heaven, all the chefs are French, the policemen are British, and the engineers are German...

But in Hell, all the chefs are British, the policemen are German, and the engineers are French...

I agree...”If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!”

[Harley]

Just put some extra pop rivets in them and a little duct tape around the edges. They’ll be fine.

[nd76]

I flew on an Air France A380 in August traveling between Washington and Paris, cashing in some Delta Sky Miles for the trip. Really enjoyed myself; glad I didn’t know about the cracks in the wings.