should we really say "pilot error"?
sorry, it is the entire way we train, supervise, test, and corporate philosophy that should be blamed.
Make it corporate philosophy to give a bonus for each well flown instrument approach and every pilot will fly the full instrument approach. Give a bonus to save money and you will end up on the side of the mountain.
Don't make it corporate philosophy to save fuel (see continental)
I guess you get my drift by now.
too many times, short cuts, looking out the window and abandoning the full IFR procedures leads to an untimely event.