Land at the nearest suitable airport?
Bodstrup
There is a valid point here. It is drummed into us in my company that if you have a failure of one engine on a twin then you land at the nearest suitable airport. A colleague was critisised for returning to base even though the failure occurred only a short time after take-off. Management thought he should have landed at an airport which was below at the time.
As news of this Ryanair incident comes out it will be interesting to see exactly where the failure happened and if in returning to DUB a long overwater crossing was involved.......