If you're attempting to land on an island in bad weather, you may not be able to avoid it. Not like you can just divert across the ocean. However if your plane has a design flaw, like a weakness in the tail the means the tail will break under severe weather conditions, that is a problem. There are now three cases of Airbus tales coming off their plans. The American airlines crash in NY some years back. The Air France crash where the tail has been found floating a long way from the rest of the wreckage and the Air Carribes' which lost it's rudder, though thankfully not the whole tail and managed to get on the ground without loss of life.

And of course we don't yet know exactly what caused this Yemenia plane to go down.

Boeing has it's fair share of problems but nothing like such a spate of tail incidents that points to a possible serious structual problem with the basic design.

- Peter.

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