PC767,
If you read the BASSA forum, those posts were from there posted by the two individuals with the names on those dates. They were actually in the Press and a colleague who saw them emailed them to me. They are were posted by real crew, both BASSA members allowed by the moderators to stay there for some time until recently deleted, not a work of fiction at all.
As for the incident today, you would have to be there to witness it and I rest my case, no ego at all. Just a sad appalling incident.