CFIT incidents still take lives, in spite of all the modern AIDS to prevent it. EGWPS, for example.
In an early chapter of "Wind, Sand and Stars" St.-Exupery decries the early aviators technique of dead-reckoning that the Aeropostale pilots sometimes used in their Breguet biplanes en-route to North Africa and beyond.
"Navigating by the compass and the stopwatch above the clouds over Spain is all very well, but remember, below the sea of cloud lies eternity"
Sends a chill down one's spine. May it never be an epitaph for me or anyone I know.