Could not agree more. My personal opinion is he did know what was going on and it was no hijack, as this has happened 3 times before to him. IMO it reeks of some sort of colusion.
It seems though that no matter what is argued, the Megas adorer's here want to make Megas into a Saint, and the stories are all starting to contradict.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. **Soren kierkegaard