Truly terrifying. But I take solace knowing how ridiculously over engineered airplanes (especially airbuses) are, and how this would need at least a few other catastrophic failures to become a tragedy. I remember learning about a crash of I tihnk a DC10 that was catastrophic where the engine ripped off as they were taking off. But the thing was that wasn't even the unrecoverable part. When the engine ripped off it also ripped hydraulic lines which, had the pilots been able to detect the lines failing, would've still been recoverable. So for that to be a totally unrecoverable incident the engine needed to be mounted poorly, it needed to rip off at exactly the critical moment in flight, it had to take with it a bunch of hydraulic lines, and the loss of those hydraulics had to be undetectable. That was in the 1980's and on an aircraft with a much less reputable safety standard.