. He knew what he was doing was wrong and he stated he didn't want anybody to get hurt. I think his maintaining comms with a very professional controller and mmmm mostly obeying his requests ensured no one got hurt on the ground or in the air.
He still destroyed millions of dollars of perfectly good equipment belonging to someone else just to show off. And that's without counting the bill for the scrambling jets, firefighters, etc.
I'm with PukinDog on this one.