Why did the WWII kamikaze commit suicide? Couldn't they just drop their bombs and fly away?

The kamikaze was a suicide attack on American ships, landing forces and fixed cluster targets after Japan's defeat at Midway at the end of the Second World War, in order to defend itself against the strong superiority of the United States Air Force and to save itself from defeat, utilizing the Japanese spirit of Bushido, and in accordance with the requirement of "one man, one plane, one bomb for one ship". Suicide attacks by death squads.

The kamikaze was named after the Yuan Dynasty emperor Kublai's campaigns against Japan. The Yuan army's two expeditions to Japan, in 1274 and 1281, were both brought to an end by sudden typhoons at sea, which resulted in the loss of the Yuan fleet.

The Japanese believe that a "kamikaze" created by the ghost of Emperor Jimmu repelled the Yuan army. Japan escaped possible annihilation by the Yuan dynasty. Naming the death squads after the "kamikaze" in fact became the true mentality of the Japanese to cheer themselves up in the face of the certainty of losing the war.