usually to make themselves feel better wrt their jealousy of its wealth, stability and beauty.
Yikes. Switzerland is an absolutely capitalist hellhole. Not for their own citizens, yes, but for everyone else. Apart from maybe 1 or 2 island nations, it’s the number one spot to store illegal money and “investments”.
It’s also much easier to hit what you aim for
water -> water Land -> oops, that’s a tree, and that’s a boulder, and that’s a lake.
Although recovering the people is much easier on land, most of the time you can land a helicopter near the capsule, recovering the hardware is generally more difficult