Makes you wonder what the hell some of these pilots were thinking that got them in these situations. I listened to the cedar rapids one and the entire time I was thinking "you're VFR only and yet you somehow thought it would be smart to takeoff when the entire midwest is bordering LIFR"
It's one thing if you have equipment failure etc etc but it seems a lot of these guys had a sever lack of judgement and were just lucky they had good ATC on the other end to pull them through