Crew was not aware of the tail strike
In an interview, the 3 pilots never realized that they had a tail strike, therefore the flight was continued to Taipei.
Mistakes can happened to anyone of "US" and we all just do our job as methodically as possibe and keeping in line with SOP. But mistakes do happen! Looked at EK 340-500 in MEL last year..
If any pilots that felt their life are threaten, shouldnt you just walk away from the job rather than put your life in it for the duratio of the contract??