Take a step back
CX have got their knickers in a twist over this and without You Tube all would have sailed along merrily with nothing further said. There have been other fly-bys as we all know. The problem is the media, fear of whom causes those caught in the headlights to do headless chicken impressions.
I do not know the CP 777 personally, but in the appeal our management should smack his hand with a return to line for 6 months and his FO STC should get a brief from Corporate Safety to remind him of the risks of fly-bys.
We have all done some unauthorised flying stunt and some of the 'holier than thou' pontificating about this incident I find extremely distasteful. It is time for the flying world to tell the media that the reason we fly aeroplanes is because we have balls and sometimes, in a thirty knot crosswind on minimum fuel, those balls need to be big.
As for calls for NR to resign; with whom would you replace him. Someone worse probably. Be careful what you wish for.