Shifting the blame to ATC
The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong contained an article which said that a CPA captain told his passengers to blame ATC for asking him to brake abruptly to avoid a collision and resulted in injuries to cabin attendants when in fact it was because he was not happy with the taxi speed and brake harshly to show his FO. The report indicated that the pilot was interviewed by the company afterwards. Six months ago an EVA air captain told the passengers that a missed approach was due to an aircraft on the runway at HKG when in fact it was a unstablized approach. The lie was revealed because one of the passengers complained about ATC to the Airport Authority, have you blame ATC to cover your own errors?