Here’s a link to an article dealing with the failure of Boeing’s modeling software to accurately predict the actual failure rate of composite materials in real-world use. The title is, “Boeing’s Misstep is indicative of Broader misconceptions of risk”:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/145302

Lengthy but very instructive article....it did include a little editorializing though.

While i assume the Gov's do not directly intervene aka the "command and control" soviet model, these subsidies certainly allow for substandard design/manufacturing that darwian forces of the "free market" would more likely winnow out. IMO Although the "free market" is a hard species to find in the EU evidenced by their 15 yr GDP growth VS the US.