He is getting a roasting and I think he'll never do it again.
I do not think he should be fired, but that's not my call.
Yes, he was wrong to let a person not training to be a controller broadcast instructions to departing aircraft.
Give them a break. I'll bet the kid knows far more about what dad does for a living than most of the media. And relieving stress IS A GOOD THING.
I'll repeat my previous comment. Not one pilot seemed confused by the instructions.
Then again, in New York, they let all kinds of people ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, where billions of dollars and peoples' livelihoods are at stake. Perhaps the media should jump on that ill advised behavior too. Oh wait, they do already, whenever a new IPO trades with executives competent enough to ring a bell, it's featured on CNBC.
Never mind.