As many have said in here before, it must be clear to all pprune readers that all "uncontained" engine failures must be treated as catastrophic failures whatever the outcome in terms of lives or damages. These are extremely serious incidents simply because by definition the outcome of these failures is unknown and unpredicatable because nobody knows where the uncontained flying piece/pieces is/are going when the explosion starts.
Great job done by the crew, fantastic response by the beast, but it is only pure luck that this plane did not go down. You can have the best pilots in the world, the most perfect FBW, etc but you have not got a chance to survive if the flying parts coming from an uncontained engine failure decide to hit the most nevralgic parts of the machine. No plane is specifically designed to cope with an uncontained engine failure simply because all engine failures should be contained unless something totally unpredictable has happened.
This is why this one, together with all other uncontained engine accidents, remains clearly a very serious incident that could have easily destroyed hundreds of lives.
This accident is pure gold for the designers and RR: they will make 100% sure that this same type of failure will never happen again on the T900. This is guaranteed or the engine would have already been "suspended" in full.
A priceless lesson for RR.
