The Big Flash & The Emirates Flight - Engine Failure!

A reader brought up this interesting story, whereby an Emirates A380 Airbus encountered a super bright flash followed by engine failure.  It is assumed that something large enough, such as a bird, may have flew into the engine...though it is highly unusual at an altitude 30 mins into the flight, a bird of that size was large enough to damage one of the A380's (massive Trent 900 Rolls Royce)