Wrong as evidenced by
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At Easter 2002, he was among 20 crew members from two BA flights who volunteered to spend the holiday period with the Kenyan youngsters, showering the orphanage with presents, medicines and donations raised at home.
He told the UK news agency the Press Association, which covered the trip: ‘We play, sing, organise activities and generally entertain them. We become very close to the children.’
There's nothing in there that says he was working on behalf of, or representing, BA in his charity work. Sure he may have roped in some crew to volunteer over Easter, but they were volunteers just like him and didn't represent any sort of official BA charity presence. There's a lot of people on this thread trying to claim that this was some sort of BA sanctioned or sponsored charity activity. It wasn't. It was simply an individual doing his own thing and occasionally getting a few volunteers along from his crew for some legitimate charity work. The fact that he chose to 'big himself up' as a BA pilot is not BA's responsibility, any more than the fact that your average ex-Harrier pilot will let you know of the fact within minutes is the responsibility of the RAF!
As to the IBTimes article, in's interesting that
lawyers are investigating claims that other BA staff were involved, but not the police. Hmmm.