A380 divert fields
Professionals,
Please excuse me if this is not the correct forum for this inquiry but i'm very curious to know how A380 flight crews and dispatch go about settling on a suitable divert for the super jumbo?. Specifically in the case of AF66, Paris to LAX, 30Sept2017, the crew elected to divert to Goosebay, NL when they lost control of the #4 engine. Are the goosebay runways and taxiways rated to accommodate the weight of the a380 seeing that it's a military airfield? Could continuing down to Toronto have been an option? I thought initially when the a380 first arrived in commercial aviation, one of the challenges was strengthening and widening runways and taxiways to accommodate it's size and weight at airports it would primarily operate from?. Thanks in advance to those who can help me understand this element of commercial aviation.