Agreed, and I say all of the below as a non-religious person.pelmet wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2024 4:48 pmBottom line, wanting to make an event, regardless of reason, is frequently the problem.
While the underlying reason for that want may be higher than other reasons(such as the event of delivering an organ to a needy patient), that debate would be better discussed on a separate thread.
Many pilots have died due to get-there-itis for a multitude of reasons. I would hazard a guess that simply needing to get home (whether to see family, not miss work or a medical appointment, need to get the aircraft back to base, etc) would be the biggest contributing factor to poor pilot-decision-making leading to fatal results. It would be a much more common reason for pushing limits as opposed to attending religious events or going to a golf seminar.
The reason for the get-there-itis is irrelevant. What is relevant is that a pilot needed or wanted to get somewhere for some reason, and pushed themselves and/or their aircraft to the edge of their capabilities, then finding out the hard way that the situation they put themselves in was beyond their abilities.
The first hole in the swiss cheese might be the reason for the trip, but there are lots of holes after that which lead to the crash. Stop making it sound like religion is the big smoking hole in the preverbal cheese block.