Wasn’t really referring to the bribe/corruption side as that is more of SOP on that side of the pond. But was nice to see Airbus get called out for a few nickels. Too bad they can’t catch their helicopter guys doing the same.
While I don’t know what you mean by “scandalous,” but I think having a yard full of A380 front and aft fuselage sections that can’t be assembled because the wiring was too short and had to be completely rewired as “scandalous.” Or maybe the loss of $33B from the 380 program could be considered scandalous since the entire design/production program was developed from mostly taxpayer fund loans with repayments based on delivery performance. No deliveries, no payments. Imagine the headlines if Boeing did that.
Definitely need to use the advance search functions with Google as it can be very “shallow” in its search and biases in the first 5-10 pages. Or perhaps go to the EASA website and search for reports? Most of the reports I saw and used were via specialized search engines.
However, 2 alpha floor incidents come to mind: one had the alpha floor trigger in cruise flight causing loss of 4000 ft before the crew caught it; and one where they were test flying a 320 and the alpha floor failed to engage and the crew lost control and crashed. I believe with that one the AOAs were compromised causing signal issues. Hmm, sounds similar to the Lion 610 flight?