So why would a distinguished long-term senior employee, who has already been dismissed in a fashion which is at least controversial, find himself unwilling to comment on any of the criticisms ......
Maybe he's got the good sense not to talk to journalists about the incident in case they distort anything he says or take it out of context for the sake of their shock horror crap, or appealing against being fired or thinking about legal action against Cathay.
Or maybe he's got the good sense not to talk to journalists, period.
He'd be stupid to talk to any journalist but an idiot if he spoke to one who's already written crap like "swooped over a runway", "daredevil stunt", "shocked investigators" and called him a "maverick".
Was the "junior manager" in the article really the mail clerk or do Cathay really employ folk that stupid as managers?
Unless he don't exist and the journalist made it up. Wouldn't be the first time they done that.