More senior officers have tried to kill me than have junior jet jocks. Its all in the log book. One SO, eventually ACM, was so 'good' that I contrived never to fly with him as Captain.
Some that I have flown with have been a MRAF, now he was both good and safe but he had done 500 hours a year as a wg cdr, an AM (as a wg cdr) who tried to get my pilot to kill me, an AVM who as a sqn ldr and my captain and also tried to kill me at least twice, an Air Cdre but we knew his technique so we kept out of his way if we could, an Air Cdre (then wg cdr) that tried to get my AVM to kill me, an Air Commodore (as a gp capt) again who had a good go.
There must be something in the march to the stars that makes them different.