Fluffy
Well, fine if you regard aircraft & crew as a very expensive cruise missile.
I know certain missions especially in earlier & Nimrod days were acknowledged as near suicide missions - but in relatively modern times, when not talking of nukes, it would be jolly handy to have the aircraft & crew back again - if being really brutal, for the numbers game.
My point is, the weapon did not do it's job - and if the BOI's ( such a reliable source ! ) reckoned most were CFIT, where was the vaunted hands off TFR " here I come " & other later kit exactly helping ?