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One passenger boarded the aircraft with a 40-ounce bottle of alcohol. Passengers who were already drunk were also reportedly allowed to board.

Video from the flight shows people with their drinks — including one of Vance’s staff — dancing in the aisles of the aircraft as a rock band plays. Amplifiers were also set up in the aisles in violation of aircraft safety procedures.

Last week Vance said he had never heard of any issues with previous morale tours and suggested some of the information military sources were providing to the media was exaggerated.

But photos from a March 2010 morale tour show the same band — the Toronto-based Carpet Frogs — playing in the aisles of the RCAF aircraft and Williams posing with beads up one of his nostrils. Other photos — posted on the band website — show people in the aisles with beer and a cooler set up on one of the aircraft seats.

Postmedia sent Williams’ lawyer a copy of the photo requesting comment. None was provided. But his lawyer noted in an earlier statement about the sex assault charge that Williams denies any wrongdoing and is confident he will be vindicated.

The Carpet Frogs did not comment.

Brian Burke, president of hockey operations for the Calgary Flames, who was also on the December flight as well as the 2010 tour to Kandahar, Afghanistan, did not comment.