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Was there not a case a few years ago of a UK a/c on a private charter for a football club; one of the players asked to visit the flight deck - damn it they'd paid for the a/c - it was allowed and the captain fired?
Yep, not naming names but it was a high'ish profile "ex-Gulf War hero" and it was pretty much as you describe..Whether he was wise or not, sad or not I don't know