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To: BenLurkin
Nothing Short of a Miracle

Not a miracle at all. Every student pilot is taught to make engine out landings. On my first flight test the check pilot turned off the fuel flow to observe my reaction. (I took the plane down to about 20 feet above some open field.)

ML/NJ

17 posted on 10/20/2018 6:02:10 AM PDT by ml/nj (.)
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To: ml/nj; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; kinsman redeemer; BlueDragon; metmom; boatbums; ...
Not a miracle at all. Every student pilot is taught to make engine out landings. On my first flight test the check pilot turned off the fuel flow to observe my reaction. (I took the plane down to about 20 feet above some open field.)

The feat was not simply landing without engine power, but on two freeway lanes between a number of cars, with just about a 1 or 2 car space on the lane that the right wing came down on, and close behind a car in the left lane (which hit the gas when he/she saw what was behind), and with the the cars not having any slowdowns that would have resulted in the plane hitting cars. While not breaking the laws of nature, I say it was providential.

Likewise when our church bus full of people ran out of gas (gauge broken) and we coasted over a mile in a populous city, down an incline, and with just enough momentum to up again and thru 2 stop signs (sorry) and make two quick turns across two streets, and come to a stop just behind the Baptist church on a high hill.

A miracle would be to go up the hill with no propulsion (I think my being healed of a lower hernia I had for years after laying on of hands was one), but this was one of providential grace. And i have many more stories of such, as do others , thanks be to God and in the collective light of evidence i cannot believe in mere luck.

29 posted on 10/20/2018 8:01:54 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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