As a young Flight Test Engineer I was running the performance side of some Jaguar trials at Warton. Heavy jet, lots of stores.
I got rather unhappy at the realisation that if we had a single engine failure, the only option would be to clear the aircraft and fly away, which would mean dumping a couple of tons of practice bombs straight through the caravan park off the end of the runway.
Chief Test Pilot told me he didn't care, thanked me for doing the maths, and authorised it anyway. In my older age, I see that maybe he had a point about caravan parks.
Since then, loads of serviceability / weather reasons I've refused to fly. It's what we do, surely - but then I don't work in a pax carriage environment, so the pressures (and resources) are different.
G