Wait! According to some posters on this forum this flight should have continued to its destination
I hope your not getting your threads confused;-) Big difference between flying through a hail shaft and flying a 4 engine airplane on 3 engines in cruise.
400dvr,
I think squawk 7777 might have been suggesting that flying a 3 engine heavy into
another problem (like a Cb) thousands of miles later is a definite maybe and something which could be avoided by a return.
Especially when so many things can go wrong and those things are no respecter of being on 3 engines...
Murphy's Law?
Regards.