Wish both a speedy return to the cockpit, but why did the MOD spokesperson have to mention pilot error? Why not simply say that an investgation would determine the cause. Innocent until proven guilty I thought.
Getting airborne on a Friday after Happy Hour should have started would never have happened in my day -- perhaps that's the cause....
Tarnished
Edited to add:
Seems BEages we have the same thoughts! Yikes!