I listened to the Today programme piece with Ed Stourton interviewing Pen Hadow the passenger and polar explorer and then grilling O'Leary. I don't usually whinge about the press, but it was typical of Britain today. O'Leary was grilled on the basis that Ryanair had been utterly deficient because there had been inadequate PA announcements from the flight deck until they were at 8,000 ft. He pointed out that the crew had their own masks on and were busy making an emergency descent, but this didn't really seem to cut much ice.
Sh*t happens, it was scary, nobody was hurt. People need to live with that. I am surprised at Stourton's attitude as I had thought him an excellent broadcaster. Even more surprising was the polar explorer's attitude, but there you go: the demise of British phlegm.