It's not just planes. Unfortunately, recently, quite a serious rail accident occurred near Leuven/Louvain for the same reason. The driver had forgotten to move the power handle to the neutral position when he reached the speed limit for a set of points which was coming up. Because we 'get used' to accelleration, neither he, nor the passengers, when interviewed after the accident, had noticed anything out of the ordinary, even though the train was travelling almost 3 times as fast as it should have. Which led to confusion on the driver's part when the safety systems started blaring away, losing vital seconds of emergency braking. One person was killed in the, by then, inevitable derailment.