The AA, was infact an Airbus. Long story short in the midst of wake turbulance the PIC elected to use FULL rudder deflection and the resulting extreme forces sheared off the entire empanage of the aircraft. Airbus updated the manuals as did AA in training. My personal thoughts....you will never find me seated on any Airbus. Boeing all the way for commercial. The plane that recently went down was an Airfrance Airbus. There was some rumors about the Pito system malfunctioning however I have a hard time believing that would cause a plane to break up mid air. There have been instances where the Pito / Static systems have either failed or were covered up before take off that caused CFT (Controlled Flight into Terrain). The black boxes have not been recovered and appears they will never be. The 30 day time frame for the black box becon has expired and the depths are some 20K feet. I can only hope for the sake of the families that French government pride will yeild itself and allow experts from the NTSB and abroad to help figure out what happened.