@STS,
Re the German TV news item "Pilot was clearly not in the cockpit"...
This will be read by the public as "There obviously was no pilot in the cockpit".
The implied idea being: "Co-pilots ain't pilots, just minions.... when their chief and master leaves the cockpit even for a moment, the aircraft is just stumbling across the sky with only George in control, and two MS FS players looking on."
I think we can expect more of this rubbish in the coming days.....