Aaaaaagggghhhhhh. Please please please could the media try and engage brain before blurting out total garbage and supposition. I can see how they must be totally confused with the fact there was more than one pilot on board. What a revelation. Who would of thought that. Next comes the incredibly amazing revelation that it was the Captain`s Co-Pilot that was handling the aircraft. That would be the Co-Pilot belonging to the Captain would it!!!!!!!!!! He`s called a First Officer and he doesn`t belong to anybody you gits.
More`s the point, not that the media would understand such things but if the left seat has just got his command on 777 having been FO on 747s for the last 15 years (Lets say, just 100 hours on type and in the left seat) and the F.O. has been sat in the right seat of 777 for the last 10 years....... Who would you suppose might be in the better position to handle in this sort of instance. Aaaaaaggghhh, Now the beeb are banging on about "his Co-Pilot") Am getting very angry now.