Given the story he has put up if he can't point to an submitted incident report it didn't happen. Bolding mine.
Mandatory reporting – routinely reportable matters (RRM)
RRMs do not require immediate reporting. RRMs are occurrences that have, or could have, affected safety, but the outcome was not serious. RRMs would involve non-serious injuries, minor aircraft damage or structural failure that does not significantly affect structural integrity, performance or flight characteristics and does not require major repair or replacement of affected components. Under the TSI Act, responsible person must report RRMs within 72 hours of becoming aware of them.
An example of a RRM may include (AIP ENR 1.14):
- an injury, other than a serious injury, to a person on board the aircraft
- a flight crew member becoming incapacitated while operating the aircraft
- an airprox
- an occurrence that results in difficulty controlling the aircraft, including any of the following:
- an aircraft system failure
- a weather phenomenon
- operation outside the aircraft’s approved flight envelope
- fuel exhaustion
- the aircraft’s supply of useable fuel becoming so low (whether or not as a result of fuel starvation) that the safety of the aircraft is compromised
- a collision with an animal, or a bird, on a certified aerodrome.