Wiggy
Thank you for that. Of course the fact that the flight in question had to divert into MAN with a degree of adverse publicity is irrelevant. Of course on a purely technical basis the venerable Jumbo has enormous redundancy. As for the article in Flight International alleging that the FAA had serious issues with the decision I'm probably being let down by my all too fallible memory.
One highly experienced TRE at the time said to me: what do you do on our LPC? Dump the gas and go back to the crew hotel!
BBK
Edited to add: I'm absolutely NOT being critical of the commander in question. I'm merely debating the decision.