DFC you start your "defence by attack" post with the words
Quite amusing that when Danny remarked in the other Ryanair bashing thred ...
Suggesting that this is about Ryanair bashing is really just part and parcel of the "£100,000 a year for 18 hours work a week" approach to issues of fact.
The issue is not Ryanair bashing, even if some do indeed bash Ryanair from time to time. The issue is where or not there are real and verifiable safety issues which, for whatever reason, either do not see the light of day or, on the other hand, are exaggerated in an unfair way against Ryanair. I am definitely in the former camp - but my point is that using the media to spin, or using
PPRuNe to counter-spin is really missing the point.
Flight has suggested that there are reasons to suspect that an independent investigation is merited. I think that such an investigation would put a lot of matters to bed once and for all. But you are talking tripe if you think that attacking others or suggesting that "everybody does it" is an adequate response to repeated reports coming from all areas of Ryanair about, shall we say, "strange goings on".