The story of the Moscow chandelier was published in Horizon the BOAC Flight Operations magazine. That must have been 1969 or thereabouts. Soon after it was repeated in some British national newspapers.
A few years later a friend of mine who worked for Caledonian claimed it had happened to their crew who flew a British Government charter into Moscow in the early 1970s . He was unaware of the earlier attribution of the story to BOAC.
Then much later still I met a non-aviation person who claimed it had happened to him in Poland. He professed no knowledge of what was by now a much repeated airline story. I can't help thinking that it must have reached urban legend status.