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New Zealand pilots have prayers answered in emergency landing

by Jeffrey White (RSS feed) on May 22nd 2008 at 2:00PM

Two New Zealand pilots appeared to have their prayers answered yesterday -- literally.

The Associated Press reports that the two, flying a microlight plane, ran out of fuel inflight. Forced with making an emergency landing, the two offered up some prayers and managed to land in a field, where they stopped right next to a 20-foot sign that read "Jesus is lord."

One of the pilots, Grant Stubbs, told the AP: "My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God's help."

It appears to have worked. The two managed to make it over an imposing mountain ridge before finding their flat landing area. Stubbs even thinks something divine was at work in the timing of the incident: Had their engines shut down a few minutes before, the plane would not have made it over the mountains.

Gives new meaning to the phrase heavenly skies, I guess.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Angiebaby May 22nd 2008 3:41PM

God watches out for fools and small children. One of these categories definitely includes pilots who run out of gas mid-flight.

iomatic May 22nd 2008 5:16PM

Yeah, it must be a miracle.

cum hoc ergo propter hoc

eerie quark doll May 23rd 2008 9:52AM

and had their engines shut down many minutes before, they would have made a trivial return to their origin runway. i guess that means god didn't like them enough to increase their fuel consumption rate, but liked them enough to time the engine cut-out so they'd make the mountain.

spectacular journalism.

Gargamello May 24th 2008 1:59AM

God is interfering with the Darwinian process of pilots who don't check their fuel gage being weeded out.

Samantha May 30th 2008 3:07PM

Cool

R.MCKENZIE May 30th 2008 8:03PM

HE'S THERE FOR ALL OF US, IT'S JUST SOME DON'T BELIEVE AND I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE IN THEIR SHOES. I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR THIS JESUS, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. I LOVE HIM MORE THEN LIFE HERE ON THIS EARTH. PLEASE GIVE THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT YOU WILL DO WITH THIS LORD OF ALL.

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