Originally Posted by Grumble

Prior to UAL 232 in Sioux City, someone pointed out the fact that the DC-10 had all the hydraulic systems bottle necked past the #2 engine, and "What if" an uncontained engine failure severed all the lines? The engineers postulated that the chance of that happening was something on the order of 1:10 million. Guess what, it happened. The only reason everyone on board didn't perish was you had an A-list group of guys on board, that happened to bring their A-game that day, to an aiport that just-so-happened to have a mass casualty drill the day prior, at a time when the hospital was changing over shifts and was double staffed to handle the patients.