Originally Posted by
punkalouver
A question for the big engined drivers. Is there any chance after an engine problem like this, that metal from the engine was ejected and caused secondary damage to the aircraft?
In a sense, one answer to this is "so what if there was a chance of that?" The decision made to continue from LAX wasn't a decision that "we will now fly over the ocean". The crew watched the aircraft - anxiously, I expect - for hours in case something happened to suggest that more damage had been done that first thought, before the decision was made to proceed beyond the east coast and on to the oceanic sector. And all through those hours, the aircraft was close to many diversion airfields. The aircraft had hours to demonstrate that it was safe, and so it proved to have been.