"It rather placed extra burdens and pressures on the pilot and co-pilot to calculate manually the performance of the engines."
"they were stretched more than ideally than they could have been in flying the plane safely, and fly safely they did". These are risk factors if ever I heard them. I did say that the holes didnt line up in this case, but if the recorder meant anything it was that the possibility was opened. How far the risk stretched with the extra burdens is subjective but not absent.
The recorder's words may be considered contradictory in this case as No Risk means no risk... minimal risk should be stated as such. My reading of his comments are different, and context is everything. In this case the violation of MEL did not cause any subsequent safety issues on that flight (past tense...it didnt cause any on that flight...) but violations of MEL could be a factor in future flights, which is why they are there.