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Different scale, but a couple years ago at Anthrocon one of my servers in my homelab threw a warning that the cache drive was running low on health/remaining writes. Odd since it was like, not even 6 months old, but whatever, I'll fix it once I'm home. Literally like 6 hours later the drive went read-only and died. I had to head to the hotel and make sure the system didn't lose any data, and would recover successfully, on one of the laptops I brought to the hotel. Then shop and order two new drives, so when I got back home I can do a swap and config. Then back to the con space.
If I was on that plane or whatever, my family and to a small extent my friends, would be totally fucked. I have stuff automated as much as I can across all systems, but eventually something will require manual intervention and the cards start to fall. And I'm the go-to guy in my social circle, so everyone will just start screaming and panicking.