Hmm, if you've already read the previous and especially parallel posts in this thread, I'm not sure what other examples or analogies to use, so somebody else wo

Hmm, if you've already read the previous and especially parallel posts in this thread, I'm not sure what other examples or analogies to use, so somebody else would need to try another tack. Basically - people's sense of direction actively lies to them, extremely strongly, so they do the wrong thing, and they crash the airplane, virtually without fail. As per my previous analogy - people without explicit driving instructions and practice (you must build actual reflexes, not just theoretical knowledge!), will overwhelmingly do the wrong thing when they understeer or oversteer a car - a machine they may operate daily otherwise and still have full sensory inputs. Flying in clouds / entering a spin is exponentially more complex and counterintuitive and punishing :< If that still feels incredibly unlikely, and please take this in the kindest possible way as an illustration and not personal :), that's exactly what kills people! The profound and pervasive unawareness of how dangerous the situation is, and just how much your body senses will lie to you and how much following them will kill you. (fwiw, note it's not "sum total of all people entering the clouds results in 86% fatality rate", of course - airlines go through clouds hundreds if not thousands of times around the world daily! But for untrained people to enter a cloud, especially inadvertently / unplanned, IS deadly)