Really nothing much to do with N- registration or Commercial or EU legislation . Everyone of us could have been caught in this
No, absolutely not. The vast majority of professional aviators I have worked with over the years (measured in hundreds) would have stopped a shambles like this before it started. That said, I worked in GA for two years, and witnessed a number of monumentally stupid things...so if your comment is GA-centric, it is hard not to agree.