A REPUTABLE paper!!!! I'm sorry, I must be reading things!!! Pilots must analytically and critically survey information presented to them. In my experience when newspapers get involved very little is analytical!! Surely you must have once read an article in a paper on a subject you are familiar with? If you have then you know there is often only the merest shred of truth there with a lot of 'story' to keep it company... I didnt notice anyone calling anyone else a liar, its just that what they reported in '''''good faith'''' seems incredibly unlikely to be accurate; activating alpha floor with pax on board would have been noticed by all and hysterical passengers who had been 'nearly killed' by Cathaywould have been on BBC/CNN et al the second they got off the phone to their lawyers...