We got stuck back at the dorms with a work emergency... had to watch the Blues from afar, but it was neat from that perspective. You normally don't get to watch their rejoins and setup air work.
But are you authority on determining whether or not a self-proclaimed authority is an authority on the subject in which they claim to be an authority?..authority authority
We'd need a lawyer with experience in this realm to chime in, then. Perhaps Lycoming could have known that this was a likely or possible outcome? Is there any engineering data to have predicted these failures in normal operations?
I know I sometimes have some kind of fear of falling... and it sucks sometimes. It's as if you don't trust your own balance when you could do the same thing if it was 1' off of the ground instead of higher.