Dunno about the recall, but you're right in that I had airbags all around me. I hit a tree in the driver side door, neither airbag around the doorframe went off. I'm lucky I made it out with just a broken shoulder bone, among the other injuries I could have/did sustain.

Allegedly it was a spinout caused by over correction (I got knocked out by the impact and don't remember most of that night), so maybe the spinning motions fucked with the directional sensors, but I would expect in the event of a spinout collision, every airbag should go off, at least programming wise.