koi,
Everyone there knew about the plans for the fly by, so i presume you must have as well. If so why did you not have a quite chat with the captain and explain the consequences of going through with it, and explain that you really wern't happy with it? I'm sure that if you did he would not have gone ahead with it. if you were really that against it why did you not jump on one of the earlier two flights? I can only assume that you both have an axe to grind.
It is a real pity he has lost his carreer because you couldn't have a quite chat over a beer.