Sunday, January 18, 2009

Your airplane

- from 10:30 AM, Sunday

We're learning new details about last week's Hudson River crash of a US Airways jet enroute to Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Turns out the co-pilot was flying the aircraft during takeoff, but immediately after impacting a flock of "big brown birds" at around 3200 feet and losing both engines, the pilot took control of the airplane and announced to the co-pilot, "My airplane."

The co-pilot acknowledged, "Your airplane" ... and handed off control to his superior.

Then pilot Chesley Burnett Sullenberger successfully executed a miracle: the engine-out water landing of his Airbus 320 ... without losing a single soul on board.

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When the flight deck gets busy, that's the kind of precise communication required to stay under control and keep an airplane in the air; that's how each party communicates and knows beyond any doubt whatsoever who's flying the airplane.

An aircraft can only have one Pilot-in-Command, one Pilot in charge, one Pilot who's commanding the flight: one pilot who is the final authority.

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No, God is not my Co-Pilot.

God is my Pilot in Command ... because I'm not worthy to be his steward.


And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
- 1 John 3:23


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