Wiggy, initial post/report on here by myself was bang on accurate, I was there !!!! What ever the press write is up to them.
It was so "bang on accurate," including your description of how the flight crew was making all possible speed back to LHR in their hysteria, that somebody who was actually a pilot had to point out that outbound, they were flying into a strong headwind and when they reversed course, guess what happened? (I'll leave you to puzzle that out.)
Much of "what the press wrote up" is, of course, the obvious result of having read your "bang on accurate" assessment, as an Expert Passenger, of what transpired. Or didn't.