…bits of shrapnel had exited the blown engine, bounced off of the runway & impacted the opposite engine!!
(My boldface, Buster’s ‘shock! horror!’ exclamation marks).
I think you’d agree, Buster, that shrapnel bouncing off a runway is unlikely to be a problem if the aircraft is in the ETOPS sector of its flight. The aircraft is also going to be at 480kts rather than 10kts, (as the EK was when its engine self-destructed at Tulla), so any shrapnel that does escape will be doing well to make it across to the other engine. The engine’s also at stable RPM, and not winding up to max power, (when things normally go wrong catastrophically with a jet engine).
I’m not so stupid to say that my sphincter wouldn’t be seriously in pout mode during 192 minutes on one donk across all that blue. (I agree, Buster, that it’s “a long way on one donk”). However, it would be
considerably tighter during 60 minutes – or even 20 minutes – after a cargo fire warning or a fire in the cabin, which can happen on any aircraft with any number of engines.