The real problem here is that the non-pilots think they were flying a crippled aircraft back to homebase just to save some bucks (or be in time for dinner).
Reread the earlier posts about status-messages. They mean really nothing: 99 out of 100 times they are cleared after landing with one push on a button in the onboard maintenance computer.
A status message in not an indication of a problem or a failure.
A status message isn't even presented directly to the pilots; it has to be manually called up on a special page in a secondary display.
Now the load bang is something else.
It is usually associated with stall and that can be destructive.
We have however several cockpit indications (vibration and EGT would be my direct focus), and as long as they remain normal you just keep on trucking'.
BTW the aircraft will automatically downlink engine data at certain trigger values and also most probably the pilots will have discussed the engine health with homebase maintenance as they have access to enormous amounts of engine data which can also be downlinked on request.
That is standard for any technical issue; via satcom anytime, anywhere.
It is not like 20 years ago that you are on your own on the other side of the globe; there has been progress and we have instant access to advise by specialists, be it f.i. operational, medical, security or in this case technical.
Anyway, we are not an arrogant bunch of cowboys.
We use our experience, airmanship and good judgement to make cooperative decisions in situations like this.
You'll gather that experience when flying day in, day out for years like we do, not by reading a pilots forum (not meant to be arrogant).