Originally Posted by
Senior Controller
Perhaps time for some here to have a cold drink and a couple of deep breaths and look again at what is known for sure , not taking social media reports and photos as facts and playing juges and jury .
If, big If , as some local news outlets are reporting , the captain requested to do this low pass to ATC and got the OK to do it and it was done above the airport, this whole saga will dry up pretty quickly.
From a friend inside the company, the CDR got ATC approval for this slight ¨detour¨ (details wrt the actual clearance not known..), but he had not been authorized by the company...