[bdamm]

Uh, no. In a car, if things go badly you pull off the road and work on a solution. If things to really badly, you have seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, and a thick frame to help you out.

In an airplane, if things to badly, you keep flying until you land. If things go really badly, remember that everything is built to be light weight, and unless the crash is well controlled, everything will be destroyed and everyone will die. If your engine quits, your cabin ruptures, your instrumentation fails, you keep flying. And you need instruments; in poor visibility, your own sensory inputs are in fact faulty, and won't help you figure out which way is down.

Unlike in a car, where it's pretty obvious where the ground is, for example.