The journo who wrote the piece referred to above clearly had not read the SOPs for such incidents - it's normal to include "narrowly missed school/hospital/old folks' home".
"Mechanical Clunking"
Clearly an experienced RW engineer. Non-engineers would have said "sounded like it was going to crash"
Agree with 902Jon - the marginal cost of a twin IFR is not much compared to the risk of a diversion or worse.