As forecast above, this story has now hit that fountain of crusading independent journalism, "The Sun".
The Sun
I feel sorry for the pilot involved as the tone of the story is "guilty but unfortunately later proved innocent".
As "The Sun" also wants to hear from passengers who were on the flight, I do hope that Ppruners are not going to be tempted to phone them using false identities to tell them a complete load of tosh. They might end up printing some "stories" which would reveal to all that they'd rather print fiction than fact.
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