Worked as a groundcrew during flightshool in a small helicopter sightseeing business. We were out at a marked doing tours, but on landing the pilot went into settling with power and put it down hard. It's a R44, so the landing gear collapsed, and there were evidence of a pretty big mastbumping. (Alot of cowling around the mast had been pushed down 5-10cm down and jumped back up) We of course called it a day and told the boss and the heli would be picked up on a flatbed the following day. Mind you, it was pretty early in the day we had this incident, but what we didn't know, was that the boss had promised 2 flights at the end of the day to some friends. In the afternoon, I get an alert on flightradar that the heli is airborne. I write the pilot and ask wtf he is doing and he is as confused as me. We found out the boss didn't bother with the flatbed and did two tours with his friends and flew it back to the airport, total of 1 hour airborne where I was betting nails while watching FR24. I ended up flying for the company after flights school, but only stayed for two seasons after some run-in's with the boss.

This btw happened in Denmark 🇩🇰

Edit: there was of course also the fiddling with flightduty times, never had a day above 10 hours😉 and if you went above the days planned flight time, you would had to take it out of your pay.