Love this bit
'A BA eye-witness told colleagues...'
Standard Jurno get out clause for "I'm going to make something up here, I have no factual evidence of it ever happening and I haven't spoken to anyone concerned; however to make sound like it has any substance at all I will use the company name and pretend that I was informed by an employee..."
Believe it is covered in Chapter 6, Section 15 of the 'Jurno's Guide to writing Bull****'