Miracle on the Hudson

Like everyone else I am fascinated by and thrilled at the near miraculous safe landing of the US Airways plane via water ditching, impeccably done and the very classy contributions of all the passengers in their mutual survival. I'm proud of everyone, especially the hero pilot and his co-pilot, and thank God for his mercy.

If the guardian angels were to comment on this I think they would say of the pilot that "He was very easy to work with."

An event like this is time to remember that as there were one hundred and fifty people on board, there were one hundred and fifty guardian angels too (who would have accompanied each person however it turned out) and of course, the Holy Spirit is everywhere...

Through that they would mean that his great talent and years of experience allowed the best possible grace of assistance to flow. Miracles work with natural law and physics, not against it, so angels appreciate someone who is in command. The only one who regularly worked miraculous wonders to change the operation of natural law was, of course, Jesus Christ.

Well, I enjoyed listening to the interviews today and look forward to much more on this thankfully happy subject!

Christian missionary on drugs crashes plane

I keep explaining that everyone is flawed, and it doesn't get much worse than this. This guy, totally stoned, took a friend's child up for a ride and crashed, killing them both. Further, he'd been evoked before AND only had 90 hours of flying in a period of four years. Idiot irresponsible assholes are idiot irresponsible assholes, no matter how "Christian" or whatever they are.

Thank God he wasn't a priest. At least priest pilots is one problem the Catholic church does not have. We'd never hear the end of it otherwise, though I read a fair number of plane crashes piloted by other denomination or non denomination Christians.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2280673/Christian-missionary-high-on-ecstasy-crashed-plane-killing-13-year-old.html

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A Christian missionary was high on ecstasy when he crashed a light aircraft, killing himself and a 13-year-old boy.

Robbie Gunter, 34, stalled the two-seater Cessna 150 just seconds after taking off and plummeted 200ft to the ground with his teenage passenger Jamie Clapp, a family friend.
Mr Gunter's pilot's license had previously been revoked and had only been given back to him four days before the crash last July.

An official investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Branch concluded Mr Gunter had taken the Class A drug ecstasy hours before the fatal flight