Why why oh why are we all still missing the point here?
SAFETY is the thing we are taught from our first trial lesson until we are sitting as a management pilot with the Authority, writing our AOCs expositions or changes to our SOPs.
A fellow professional makes a possible safety blunder which is reported to him (SAFETY)
There is the ability for said crew to reassess the situation and decontaminate the surfaces as required (SAFETY)
The professional brings this possible blunder to the attention of fellow professionals (here) - an icing warning that we all could heed (SAFETY)
A member of the public then reports what he has heard to a competent authority (SAFETY)
Some people may take exception at the way any single one of these things were handled, but NO pilot or passenger should question the intentions that underpin them.
Anyone who DOES question these intentions deserves to fly nothing other than a single seater over very sparsely populated areas.
Ditto for anyone who chooses to disregard information passed to them which has a potentially significant safety implication.
RIX