Yeah you are right Wiz.
Perhaps this forum would more aptly serve the image of industry professionals if those who insist on treating the IPG as a bunch of incompetent wannabe's who got lucky, are collectively lumped in with those who percieve all QF pilots as a bunch of old codgers who sit around an open fire, brandy snifter in hand, telling each other what gifts to aviation we are?
Back to this incident, I am sure there is more to it than this rough outline I was presented with.
But it does serve as a salutary lesson, and any professional would ignore that lesson at his peril.