Originally Posted by
Hilico
One instance where having a CVR fitted would not have helped. I am not making that point flippantly - trying to determine the reason(s) it was flown that way will rely on more than just examining a transcript.
There aren’t new ways to kill yourself in an aircraft.
There shouldn’t be surprise about these fatalities, the reasons are almost always the same: supreme confidence in your own abilities coupled with having got away with it before.
Not everyone will have realised how close they got to shuffling off their mortal coil and instead pat themselves on the back (or get patted on the back) for a job well done. Different personality types process situations differently. Our faults are baked in at birth.