Just flew on a Lufthansa one yesterday BER to FRA. If you avoid one airplane type because it was in an accident then you'd never fly. As it turns out the AA a300 was in a very severe turbulance incident in South America in the past and the theory is that there was hidden structural damage that was undetected from that incident which attributed to the final failure. A +/- 3 degrees of slip couldn't cause that failure on it's own. My 2 cents worth.

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Cheers Scott