"Jim Macklin" wrote:

It was a Chinese airline. The engine was secured from
rotation by the use of seat belt extenders. It had landed
in Germany and the Germany's grounded the airplane.

Those weren't seat belt extenders, they were palette straps.

The pictures originally appeared about 5 years ago, and has been
embellished since then, which seems to be the pattern on internet.

The engine is shown sitting on an engine stand, and it would surprise me
that the straps were put on after the engine was removed from the aircraft.

Supposedly, the story does have a grain of truth in that the aircraft did
land in Frankfurt with the damaged engine.