First Step,
Well said.
What no one seems to have mentioned in the last seven pages is, were the crew confident that they would be able to achieve go-around thrust on the damaged engine. If I'd been in the same situation, given the same info then I would have been very unsure. If you can't get go around power then you have to treat the situation as single engine (even with the damaged engine running) and therefore on a twin engined aircraft land at the nearest suitable airport.