Hmm. Mistake, yeah, OK, we (I) 've made them too, but...
Wedding lift. Cutting it a bit close as a PPL at the best of times, but a towering take off like that, even if under control which this one clearly was not, is undoubtedly an unnecessary and hazardous manoeuvre, especially with pax on board, but from a confined site like that in a single, the whole op was an utter no-no, surely?.
The following uncontrolled spin and backwards transition which so nearly became overcooked was manifestly dangerous, and the ensuing uncontrolled yaw (loss of TR authority due low speed, high Tq?) and overcorrection with excessive fwd cyclic that left the a/c in that astonishing tight descending nearly vertical nose-down turn, Hell, Dennis Kenyon scarcely achieved attitudes like that, but at least his looked intentional.
And then, the imbecile, instead of slinking off quietly and letting go of the the seat slowly and unobtrusively had the gall, the rank stupidity, to return for a fly by to what looked very like a free air hover at a couple of hundred feet, over a congested area, in a single. Need I go on?
I hope this idiot is prosecuted to the limit and is permanently removed from our skies. He has no place there, as he has so thoroughly and amply demonstrated.
This was no mistake...At best a hideously dangerous incompetent screw-up compounded by an unbelievably stupid and deliberate return to the scene to repeat the calumny and consciously break even more rule of air and airmanship.