Unfortunately, they have quoted or at least paraphrased what has been said on this forum. They do it just like they find a friend's cousin's buddy who has a Tomahawk to be an "expert" on the ditching properties of an Airbus.

Also some non-pilot types, the kind that wouldn't know an APU from an NG, start threads like this:

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...-thoughts.html

So if we, "the real experts", start casting doubt on another pilot, the nut cases will come out the woodwork and say "pilots are incompetent, drunken, womanizers." I know that isn't true, almost all of us are competent