PRAGMATIST NEEDED -
Just as a single truck took out a barracks of 200 marines and a rubber dinghy nearly sunk the destroyer Cole, Murphy's Laws are waiting for an ETOPS opportunity. The arrogance required for simple oversight or mistake will do the most damage.
The Newark DC-10 accident is sufficient evidence to send the math boys back to 'thinking' school. Beyond what nearly happened (hydraulic leak, as well)is the fact that the event was plagued with a pre-existing and highly ignored history. While the uncontained failures date to the 1970's, the FAA (I believe) only cited a history since 1989.
Pay attention to the fact that the same company suffered two more uncontained engine failures in short order. The aircraft were all based out of the same city; where is the maintenance oversight by the FAA? Add to that the obvious maintenance standard which is alleged to have been the bizarre initiation of the Concorde crash.
I respectfully submit that engineering arrogance has already condemned a planeload of passengers.