"The tanks are located and designed to be protected in case of such problems. The wing was affected, but absolutely not the fuel tank," said Airbus spokeswoman Aude Lebas.
There ya have it folks, Airbus claiming their _single lone_ fuel tank in the A380 is designed to be protected in exactly such a cases as this.
My uncle, aunt, and cousin were on a 737 otw to Hawaii and one engine went out like half way there, they said it was soooo scary.
-BigBOBCH
This was significantly more serious than a contained engine failure or outage. In this case debris from the engine was uncontained and that is a serious failure/incident, they are very lucky nothing else (besides some of the external skin on the wing) was critically damaged, compromised or ignited by the engine debris/shrapnel. This incident is worth warranting the grounding of the rest of the A380s in use until the problem is discovered and/or resolved.
An out engine can be scary but it happens, you usually have to descend in altitude and then fly slightly off-level since you only have power to one side of the aircraft. I'm sure it felt awkward and uncomforitable for them, but they were perfectly safe, the 737 has some pretty robust engines, even if one of two of them is out. In their case an incident investigation into why the engine failed would be warrented, but not grounding the rest of the B-737 fleet.
