Yesterdays headlines will be wrapping tomorrows fish and chips. This pilot made the headlines. Nobody got hurt. Nothing got damaged. The interface between his arms and the yoke will certainly be sorted. This pilot and Flybee will make sure of that.
But what worries me as a passenger is still the layout of some commercial cockpits, though some of my friends who fly aircraft with a sidestick instead of a yoke say its not a problem and they like it. The problem to my mind is that as in the case of AF, the guy in the right hand seat cannot see what the guy in LH is doing with the sidestick!
Modification of aircraft controls has come a long way since the Wright brothers used weight shift to control roll. The arrangements can still be improved.