Thanks for the link, dude.
Christ.
In the industry most pilots are professional and would not do this.
Agreed, but regulations and laws usually only exist because of a minority's foolish or reckless actions.
Most people wouldn't dream of smashing a glass into someone's face at the pub, but due to a feral minority, there are laws against doing it and regs about tempered glass.
I wonder what non-aviation readers of that article now think about the GA joy flight industry.
Unfair? Of course. The vast majority of operators are safe and professional.
So are the majority of Queensland dive operators, but that didn't help them when an unprofessional outfit lost a couple of people. The industry got regulated to kingdom come by a jittery state government, to the extent that many safe activities are now unviable because of ridiculous regs.
One of the problems with rogue operators (apart from the obvious one, ie the completely needless fatality) is that every other professional business suffers for their actions, from both increased regs and bad
PR.