Well, it's not just US reporters

[Dr. O]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/09/passenger-takes-controls-plane-pilot-ill-humberside

Try and make sense of it.
Took off early morning 25 miles away. Landed in the PM (supposedly)
Did not have the plane lights on so he was in the dark (AM or PM?)
The propeller hits the floor.

Now, knowing how socialism works I firmly expect the passenger to get a bill from their ATC for making that landing - you pay for that stuff over there.

 

[Jim_R]

The "prop hitting the floor" comment was from some random eyewitness, so that much at least can be excused.

 

[Graueradler]

I,ve been a passenger out of that airport - 13 years ago. KLM from Humberside to Amsterdam to Memphis while working in Hull. Most of us changed the vowel in Hull.