Originally Posted by
toratoratora
The same happened a few years ago with the talking-head 'aviation expert' Simon Calder in the Independent, who bought O'Leary's claim that pilots 'only worked 900 hrs per year', without fact-checking.
He got several thousand responses for that, including mine.
I was one of the thousands. In fairness to Mr Calder, he apologised by return and subsequently printed a correction.