He did disobey orders to a certain extent, but if someone feels as though they are at some risk or danger, or they will be in the future if they don't act then I think you would be unlikely to find anyone that wouldn't act in the same manner. If you let the enemy (he though it was the enemy go) and they shoot you down the next day, you don't come out on top.
I have got to meet quite a few air force boys in the past couple years, and 99% of them think that grounding him was enough of a punishment. Things are always different you must remember when one is at war, it is easy to be the armchair pilot or soldier, but it isn't realistic.
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