At the expense of the lives of this crew.
Perhaps worth balancing that by pointing out the crew did not have to participate in this stupidity. This was purely Darwinism in action for the second time in a month in S America.
After all, there is a difference between handling guns and actually playing Russian Roulette.
This company evidently made a habit of the latter. The spectators knew it, a small crowd was were waiting for - anticipating - spectacular video footage. These 727 take-offs were evidently a well known event that drew numbers of spectators. How long had the been doing this I wonder?
No amount of pressure on a crew can excuse taking part in something like that. Of course management must shoulder much of the blame but had the crew refused that loading there would have been no such flight and no such accident.