I agree with Haugtney, there has been a compromise of PPRUNE, but given the size of the readership of this site and the important role it now plays as a global relayer of news and opinion within the industry - whether said opinion is bull!!!!! or not - it is hardly suprising that things like this should happen. The last major FR thread regarding the lads who landed at somewhere other than Derry was directly quoted by the BBC on national news. They even went as far as to show a computer screen with a post on it that they directly quoted, and I would add it was quoted out of context and its meaning was twisted to fit the angle the report was coming from.
I don't see what option Danny had. He explained it carefully enough. As someone else said, this issue isn't likely to be swept under the carpet. A site such as pprune, for the aforementioned reasons, makes any such event by any operator instant industry wide news, difficult to sweep away quietly, and the depth and diversity of readership here means that news travels fast - certainly fast enough to make legal gagging an unwanted fixture now. I guess pprune has become a victim of its own success.