I was flying back to the field with a wingman and approach brought another section in right in front of me. It was VFR so I thought it was no big deal, but I hit their wake turbulence and my airplane rolled upside down, into my wingman. My wingman managed to take separation, I rolled upright, we came into the break in the loosest formation ever seen in Naval Aviation, and landed safely. I gave my data dump to the event lead and then we went to the O'club and got completely hammered.
Some guys would list all their night traps, but I don't consider them dancing with grim reaper, they just suck.
I have a couple of tales of my own, but a ( USAF veteran) test pilot I knew could really tell the stories. Starting with target fixation and pulling out so late that he had vegetation on his plane when he got home (said he he was so shook up afterward that he didn’t strafe a rifleman he saw shooting at him). And the time he casually aimed up at a cloud when he fired a burst to check his guns . . . and put his nose down and flew into the trajectory of the bullets . . . Or his first encounter with a Mig-17, which he said ended after two passes when “both of us got the same idea at the same time - this is too close to being a fair fight!"