Well, no short range aircraft (A320, as well as 737, 757 and MD80) has fuel dump installed, thats a feature only used on long range crafts, with a big different between max takeoff weight and max allowed landing weight. Something like a A320 has such a low fuel capacity compared to its landing weight, that it simply don't need to dump the fuel. And it is a FAA regulation as far as i know. As for the landing gear, during strut overhauls, the centering mechanism which is designed to keep the nose wheels straight when the strut is fully extended is getting installed 90 degrees off by mistake. So it's not a design flaw (other than possibly making it idiot proof, but nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool), it's a RTFM issue. Airbus has issued several changes to the maintenance manuals and such. Outsourced maintenance. That's where the danger comes from, outsourcing maintenance, cutting corners to reduce operational costs is a major cause of aircraft incidents and chrashes, the other major cause is that a lot of pilots lack basic english, wich causes confusions, mistakes often with fatal results like in the Helios crash this summer, the pilots did simply not understand the warnings that plane gave when the pressure failed.

Robert van der Veeke Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! "Better is the enemy of good enough." Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau.