Excellent point. While any possibility of an onboard fire is extremely serious, a fan blade escaping engine housing containment and puncturing the wing is also

Excellent point. While any possibility of an onboard fire is extremely serious, a fan blade escaping engine housing containment and puncturing the wing is also extremely serious. It was only a combination of luck, skilled piloting, and sound aircraft design that kept that 380 in the air. A modern airliner such a vastly complicated machine that it's simply not possible to create an error free design. The best you can hope for is a safe enough design and competent enough operators to be able to bring the craft safely to ground in the event of a flaw. Combined with a competent regulator in the FAA, I would say that the system is working as designed. I might be an optimist, but I would have no qualms whatsoever about hopping on one for the first flight after they're allowed back in the air.