edmundronald
That is a comforting sentiment to entertain, but in the real world, a pilot who diverts to an alternate in order to avoid a landing that the data supports will most certainly get a phone call from his base chief pilot asking him to explain himself. This implicit pressure certainly can cloud judgement. Unfortunately, the aviation industry employs "binary decision making" (i.e. there is no spectrum of safety, an operation is either safe or unsafe, no grey areas are acknowledged).