C'mon Buster, read it again.
Sure, it lacks the usual "I thought we were all going to die" quote, but it still seems like a beat-up to me.
If there really was a fire in the engine do you think it would take an ATC intruction to get the pilot to come back and land?
It seems to me that ATC reported seeing some smoke and the pilot decided the best thing to do would be to return and find out what was wrong.
No engine FIRE and no FORCED landing. And just a bit different to the headline.
