Why weren't we fined?
In March 1977, on my second trip as a fully qualified 747 classic copilot, the aeroplane suffered a severe No 2 engine failure on the climb out from MIA back to LHR.
Mindful of the fact that we were in the business of safely getting our pax from MIA to LHR as expeditiously as possible, after consulting the Company and his flight crew, the captain elected to divert to JFK for best onward transmission of pax and the most suitable place to repair the a/c. God knows how many "suitable" airfields we passed on the way from MIA to JFK. Nobody (apart from one or two posters on this thread) would seriously suggest that we should have landed at one of them.
And that was 29 years ago when engines were relatively unreliable.
Strange thing, but the FAA didn't fine us!
Stoic