Nothing very new here.
'Rogue Aviators' are with us today as they always have been. They continue to threaten the lives of others, as well as themselves, because of the enthusiasm of their peers (as demonstrated in the preceding posts) for this particularly stupid indulgence in the 'Look at ME' culture. It is the aviation equivalence of the juvenile toerags who destroy lives in 'joyride' thefts. It demonstrates the same level of maturity and has the same social value. Why am I so violently anti? Not too difficult to understand when you have had to recover your predecessor's flying kit from the remains of the crash which killed him and two other souls. The 'accident' was the last of a sequence of 'events' which mirrored those of the B52 'Ace of the Base' having been repeated over the previous years and gone unreported by his squadron 'mates' "because he was such a good pilot". There will be those of you out there who will be aware of just this set of circumstances in respect of one (or more) of your colleagues. Will you have the guts (moral and otherwise) to 'whistle blow' or will you wait for the (inevitable) final act and THEN wring your hands? From experience, it's not difficult to work out the answer!!