Originally Posted by old,not bold
I just know that there's only one place I want to be in an aircraft where something has gone seriously wrong, and that's on the ground, because the next thing to go wrong, probably through unpredictable and unpredicted human error, may kill me.
It would be a pity if you were hurt because of a problem with an attempt at a high or overweight landing on a wet runway in a dark night in indifferent weather at the origin airfield, that took place because you chose to go back rather than continue in an aircraft that was safe for continued flight.
And that, it seems to this layman, is just one possibility of many.