Just because you are incharge of millions of dollars of computer equipment and what have you doesn't mean that you are responsible. I'm a computer admin too and my boss (also an admin) is anything but responsible.

If you were a responsible person you would have put enough thought into it not to even ask your buddy to hand launch the plane when you didn't know how to fly it ESPECIALLY at night and with the high winds.

Or maybe you are just trying to off your buddy.....