Here are some of the problems thrown at the crew of the QF A380 that suffered an uncontained engine failure.
* massive fuel leak in the left mid fuel tank (the beast has 11 tanks,
including in the horizontal stabiliser on the tail)
* massive fuel leak in the left inner fuel tank
* a hole on the flap canoe/fairing that you could fit your upper body
through
* the aft gallery in the fuel system failed, preventing many fuel transfer
functions
* fuel jettison had problems due to the previous problem above
* bloody great hole in the upper wing surface
* partial failure of leading edge slats
* partial failure of speed brakes/ground spoilers
* shrapnel damage to the flaps
* TOTAL loss of all hydraulic fluid in the Green System (beast has 2 x
5,000 PSI systems, Green and Yellow)
* manual extension of landing gear
* loss of 1 generator and associated systems
* loss of brake anti-skid system
* unable to shutdown adjacent #1 engine using normal method after landing
due to major damage to systems
* unable to shutdown adjacent #1 engine using using the fire switch!!!!!!!!
Therefore, no fire protection was available for that engine after the
explosion in #2
* ECAM warnings about major fuel imbalance because of fuel leaks on left
side, that were UNABLE to be fixed with cross-feeding
* fuel trapped in Trim Tank (in the tail). Therefore, possible major CofG
out-of-balance condition for landing.
- fire bottles didn't work
- the uncontained failure sheared the wiring loom to #1 engine which rendered it uncontrollable and in degraded mode (hence pouring foam into it on the ground to try and shut it down)
- fuel leak from 2 tanks, jettison & XFR unavailable
- 52 ECAM warnings plus 12 status messages which took 5 crew 48 mins to process
- no LE slats, antiskid, green system (yellow off #3 only), A/T (#1 engine uncontrollable, #2 AWOL, #3 ok and #4 bizarrely operating in degraded mode having lost both its hydraulic pumps), satphone or radios apart from VHF 1
- wing gear brakes accumulator only (burst 7 tyres on landing)
- Vref of 165kts (performance manually calculated as the computer couldn't cope with that many failures)
And finally
The cabin crew went into therapy, the pilots went to the pub.