would try her first. And second.
After that, go the route you did.
Not saying you did anything in particular wrong.
My statement to you was not related to any specific event.
Just a general statement in that sometimes humans do make mistakes and honestly think they’ve arrived a valid decision.
On the opposite end of the scale, pilots will trust instruments to the point, sometimes, on rare occasion, that the instrument has failed and is leading them into grave error.
Such was the 737 that went down in a South American jungle many years ago. The electric horizon failed, but the mechanical old one was still working. They apparently never looked at the old mechanical one.