It's all the fault of the movies
says overstress.
I think there was a movie in the 70s along similar lines called Carry On Regardless. Sid James played the captain with Kenneth Williams as the CSD and Barbara Windsor as a rather coarse and vulgar trolley dolly whose top kept springing off as she threw the peanuts about. I could be mistaken though as my memory isn't what it once was.
Do you think that it is always safer to land the aircraft than to continue on three engines?
asks Globaliser. What goes up eventually comes down, the three engine landing cannot be postponed indefinitely, the question is as to whether or not an ocean should have been crossed prior to making said inevitable landing. Not all would have made the same decision. But no harm done, and they all lived happily ever after.